OUR PUBLIC GARDENS
Wellington is not so well equipped with public gardens that a "cut" can be viewed with equanimity. The Horticultural Society has good reason to urge that the area and the care given to flowers should not be further reduced. Our reserves have .in the past been expensive, owing to the high cost of forming most of the playing grounds. Consequently there has never been lavish expenditure on horticultural work. . Yet the expenditure.that has been sanctioned has produced wonderful results. Perhaps there would have been more if the gardeners and gardening societies had been able formerly to speak as they can speak now for the many thousands who play no organised games but find their recreation in the cultivation and study of plant life, Because
horticulture is-not sport it must not be despised and neglected. It is recreation for mind and body, and in encouraging it the City is supplying a great public demand. To be sure, neither the gardener nor his flowers call forth the noisy demonstrations of popularity which are given to those who show prowess in games; but that popularity is real nevertheless and shduld' have due consideration when public expenditure on reserves is being allocated.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 62, 15 March 1933, Page 8
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201OUR PUBLIC GARDENS Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 62, 15 March 1933, Page 8
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