THE GLORY OF EARLY SUMMER.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 673, 27 August 1917, Page 1

THE GLORY OF EARLY SUMMER.

OLD ENGLAND AT HER BEST. _ 1 <i. Never (writes the Daily Mail) has there been such a summer for bringing forward early crops. Oats were reported to be in full ear last week—the earliest ever known. Farmers will be digging up their first crops of new potatoes in a few days, and this apart from the special early crops which have been on the market for -a little time. London was flooded with strawberries last week, strawberries which on Saturday night ware selling in the streets for a.s little pis Sdi a (pound, fine ripe berries. The lain may have injured the crop sc mo what, but :a,s far as; I ban gather, the only problem about the strawberries this* year is the difficulty of finding labour to pick them. Then the flowers nil over England are the finest known. There has never been such.a rose year. The roses are early .and fuller and finer, and, strangest of all, the leaves are, so far as my own experience more free of blight than most of us can remember before. The- heavy rains of Saturday and the immense hailstones must have done some- damage to the crops in boating them down, but the rain has given wonderful refreshment, and the Irees to-day look greener and ]i.;sliG|' and the flowers brighter than it is easy to picture. U’ it were not lor the war one would he inclined to say that England this year is shewing us herself at her very best, at least so far as her natural aspects arc concerned.