SAVING GARDENS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18009, 20 November 1926, Page 10

SAVING GARDENS.

To f*ie Editor. Sir,—Ever\' newspaper contains numerous advertisements of cutting up beautiful old orchards and gardens. Fine fruit and nut trees in the prime of f their bearing are ruthlessly cut down at the orders of their reluctant owners and planters—harassed into so doing—by the constantly rising menace of the rates. Now the result of the destruction of scores of full-bear-ing orchards must be felt keenly in the near future by the city of Christchurch itself. Many English county towns remit, the rates to a considerable extent on an acre of garden space or over which is to be kept as a garden for a term of years or permanently. This is regarded as the more desirable, as such plots of land can often be secured from the owners later playgrounds for a city at a reasonable price, and often even as free gifts from old families desirous of doing something for their city. Once built on, however, these beautiful sites are obliterated forever.—l am, etc.. “GARDEN CITY.”