NATURE’S LOVELINESS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12949, 14 May 1935, Page 2

NATURE’S LOVELINESS.

PRINCE AS GARDENER. HIS LOVE OF FLOWERS. Britain’s growing love of flowers was welcomed by thu Prineo ot Wales at a dinner ol the Worshipful Company of Gardeners in Loudon, states the Telegraph. “Mow lias this greater demand for flowers come about ” he united “With cheap motoring, with itiereura ed hiking, with more and muro people have got to know ami love the country and tin* flowers. “Even in the North, where they do not get so much fun as we do here, the Princess Koyal ran tell you that that is the case. It in a. most healthy sign. Let us have flow ers in our home every day.’’ The Prince, who is an enthusiastic gardener, was admitted to the freedom of the company. With him at the banquet was his sister, the Princess Boyal, herself .1 member of the company. The Prince said that, “though only a young and amateur garden er,” lie found himself at homo among gardeners. He hoped one da.v to carry away a number of prizes at horticultural exhibitions. The Prince said he was a freeman of six City companies: “My only claim to be a member of the Musicians’ Company,” he said, “is that I wrote recently what I do not think a very good slow inarch for the pipes. (Laughter). “I am also Master of the Merchant Mariners’ Company. I hold that very high rank of Admiral in the Navy, but T would never advise anyone to sail in a ship in which I was captain and in charge of the navigation. (Laughter). “As a landlord, I am particularly proud to be a Freeman of the Company of Gardeners, because ■'here are so many of mv own tenants in the Duchy of Cornwall earning their own living at horticulture. il have a Welsh miner, wlio had been out of w’ork for a great number of years, growing flowers in the Isles of Scilly.” The Prince was referring to Mr J. Evans, a former unemployed miner in the Welsh valleys, for whom the Prince found a farm four years ago. Lord Wakefield, proposing the Prince’s health, said “open air” was the prominent feature of the Prince’s philosophy of life.