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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15612, 9 June 1916, Page 8

One of the most lamentable facts of the war just now apparent to Londoners (says the special correspondent of the "Sj'dney Morning Herald") is to be had by the simple jprocess of a stroll in Hyde Park. Along mile 3of the walks where the flower beds are onl3' the flower beds are to be seen. There are no flowers, and there is no hope of any. _ For now is being fulfilled the project of the powers that i>e, as announced by them in the au<tumn. They planted no bulbs in thu autumn, and they made no provision for flowering annuals It wgs a war expense wlrich, they dceided, the nation should be spared. Hence these miles of empty beds, and hence the iamentation of the beauty-loving Londoner for the loss of - that spread of spring loveliness of the parks which once was his, and is his no longer. In the autumn he did not say much about it. Ir. the autumn it is not easy to visualise the spring. But it is April now, and the trees are in leaf, and all that awakening beauty should havo for surrounding the blcom of spring flowers. And being April, quite a number of Londoners are breathing maledictions on the economy which ha-, caved a few pounds, though thousands ho wasted otherwise, and in the saving has rebbed them of one of their finest Dossessioim.