GENERAL REMARKS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12647, 10 November 1906, Page 7

GENERAL REMARKS.

Mr Race, the Canadian Commissrouior, mad?, soroo happy and peu*tincnt remarks at the Mayor's banquet rega-rding horticulture in church, speaking with regard to its value to a pocple and what it really denoted as to their character. One criticism, however, that ono relaung to the high fenoes areund both pnoic and priva-to gardens, was ha idly a just one, for people owning ga..d n*havo not the slightest desire to h do their floral treasures from the public gaze. In fact, the sentiment is a l ".' toother way, and high frnces are really grown because cf onr persistent ....g 1 * winds, which axe so d-strurtivo to growth, especially to that of tho more tender plants. H : gh fences or shelter belts are. an absolute nrcossi'y to successful horticulture in Canterbury, and many othor centre-* of New Zealand, and any attem.pt to gr-w Aowctb wit-bout wind mrotoct'on will la*-ge'y spell failure. No doubt the fact of our h*i(gh feno-s will strike many of cur oversea v'sit-cre. a--d \\vse few lines may, perhaps, explain sat isfacton Itheir existence.