The First Signs Of Spring.
A Woman’s View
J HAVE SEEN the first kowhai out in bloom, and the first spray of fluffy yellow wattle, and in a shop in Cashel Street there was a bowl of gathered gorse. Tflese are our own signs of spring. They do not bluff us, like the tantalising paper-whites and jonquils from the North Island, stirring us to premature hopes. These sturdier blooms are brave signals—“ What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!” But go not in search of them, for the scent of them will make you restless. The long road down to the river and the gorse a blaze of gold, the kowhai in the scrub up on the hillside, where the bell-birds sing behind the homestead, and the -wattle at the farmyard gate; how can spring come like that in the mud and slush of the city? Yet japonica buds are bursting down by the old mill island, and the sap in the chestnuts will soon be stirring. B.E.S.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19120, 12 July 1930, Page 8
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