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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 28 June 1911, Page 4

A NUMBER of trees in the Queen's Gardens (have 'been taken out this winter. As the years have gone on and the trees have grown there has been overcrowding, aind' it became necessary to do some thinning! out. Probably no more trees will be taken out this year; but opinions differ as to whether further removals would not be an advantage. After all, the Gardens occupy only a small space, and many of the trees growing therein are unsuitable to tho restricted area. Would it not be better to maintain tQie Gardens as a shrubbery almost entirely, a'ather than have so many tall trees, which in the end will have to come out? Many of the shrubs have .now growni to a igood .size, and having been caa'el'u-Ily trimmed and shaped are quite effective,, and are far more picturesque than a large number of the tall trees, (some deciduous, and others pines dead at .their tops), which are already half decayed a.nd certainly neither ornamental <nor useful.