TREELESS STREETS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11797, 28 July 1900, Page 8

TREELESS STREETS.

TO THE EDITOR. " Sib, —I have visited all the principal towns in. New Zealand, and take an interest in grouping together the varioiis features which go. to constitute landscapes of beauty. I without hesitation give the palm to our fair city, an appellation often applied to it by strangers: . . ' . .

The Great Creator has bestowed upon it almost every essential feature to constitute a landscape of distinguished beauty. It has the fugged mountains in the back ground, the placid and shining waters in the bay, the undulating terraces of evergreen farms, gullies filled with Nature's varied tints of bush, and trellis plants, whose foliage never fade, filled with birds of varied plumage, possessed of sweet and liquid notes. In the off foreground the expansive ocean, wherein also is variety, at one time as placid as a mirror, or silver lake, then breaking forth into fury, • lashing with thunderous roar on her sand-girt shore. But, ah me! when I think and look at the insignificant attempt of the hand of man to supplement the lavished beauties of Nature I am forced to the conviction and exclamation of Mr T. E. Taylor, who, after attending a caucus of the Liberal members of Parliament with regard to their servility, exclaimed that his soul sickened at the sight. Often as I walk along our bare, naked, unadorned streets, scarcely a tree or shrub to be seen, my soul sickens at the sight. After every other election of members or council and mayor I have hoped to see some move by the younger and more up-to-date elements towards the adornment and beautification of our streets by tree-planting, but so far I am doomed to disappointment. 1 had hoped our present progressive mayor would have infused some spirit of the beautiful into the water-logged elements constuuting our council too long, in the direction 1 have indicated. I suppose what with sending off contingents, patriotic finance, plague scares, sanitary and water schemes, his hands have been fairly well filled. We\ will try and exercise patience till after his re-election to the mayoral chair, but if no move i* made soon thereafter-well, T doubt if I will extend my favours much'further. Supposing it was only £100 spent annually mostly everyone would appreciate the outlay, and no doubt it would help to attract "retiring capitalists, add largely to the value of property, the enlargement of the city, and an expansion of business generally —I am, etc.,

Adoknment.

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Raspberries are probably the most profitable of fruits for market-growing, and the rrw varieties "Superlative" and Hornet • are the best paying kinds to grow. Nimmo and Blub sell them, and will give all particulars r?~-\vd'iig them.—Ad'"t.