THE SUMMER FLOWERS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 30, 29 October 1932, Page 19

THE SUMMER FLOWERS

Our Unglish flowers help to make The loveliness of Earth, And though they die in winter-time Each year we see their birth. Then mtist we guard their beauty lest Into these fields of ours One future day the children coine IF/io know not English flowers; Lest they arc told: One day our la,:d With living gems did shine; Once honeysuckle and, wild rose Did. hand in hand entwine; Each year, once, bluebells washed our woods, A blue and rippling tide, And, though their beauty was for man, Through man’s rough hands they died. T)”< poem is not about our laud, but I should like you to read it carefully, and apply its lesson to clematis and delicate ferns and all the treasures of our bush. —Kiwi.