TRAM TRACKS IN SUMNER

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21728, 10 March 1936, Page 5

TRAM TRACKS IN SUMNER

REPRESENTATIONS BY BOROUGH COUNCIL Further consideration of representations made to the Christchurch' Tramway Board by the Sumner Borough Council for the improvement of the track at the cutting and at Nayland street will be given when the board is discussing the estimates for the new financial year. This decision was made at a meeting of the board yesterday following a report by the works and traffic committee. The report of the committee stated that the present position of the loop at the cutting had been adopted order to obtain visibility of the other loop at Mount Pleasant. If any alteration in position was made, the value of the loop would be lost. The committee felt that when the work of road widening, now being, carried out by the council, was completed, motorists would have an improved view at this point. In the meantime the Automobile Association would be approached about the erection of suitable signs. • The Nayland street track had occupied the same position since 1905. It would be a costly matter to deal with this track piecemeal. It had therefore been decided to hold over any alteration to this track until the time for renewals, when the whole stretch from Clifton bridge to Wakefield avenue, at an estimated cost of £1750, would be renewed and the position of the curve altered.

Further consideration, however, would be given to the matter when the estimates for the new financial year were under consideration.

saffrons are known under the botanical name of Colchicums. There are several different types, and both single and double kinds are represented. Those frequently seen In gardens are varieties of colchicum, autumnale and the giant form, speciosum. Both types are good for massing, the colours being mauve, purple mauve, and pure white. Colchicum speciosum and its White form, album, have exceptionally fine flowers and are much larger than those of the autumnale section. Colchicums are quite easy to accommodate. They grow quite readily m most soils and they last well as a cut flower. ~ ~ Sternbergia Lulea— Known as the yellow autumn-flowering crocus, it is worthy of more attention than it receives. At the present time this bright yellow-flowering bulbous plant is very effective with its many showy flowers.Unlike many of the autumn bulbous plants, this plant pushes its flowers through a mat of dark green foliage. Many of the other autumn bulbous plants flower without their foliage.: The zephyr flower, zephyranthes Candida, is another autumn-flowering crocus-like plant. It, too, flowers most profusely, and its white flowers are. shown to advantage amongst its. rushlike foliage.

SHRUBS

Blue-flowering subjects are always valued in the garden, but those flowering at the present time are more so. Caryopteris mastacanthus is quite effective with its masses of blue flowers. This hardy little shrub is suitable for planting where the space is limited. It stands pruning well, and may be cut hard back each year in spring. • ', ; ' ; '.