WHAT MEMBERS SAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19451, 15 December 1934, Page 16 (Supplement)

WHAT MEMBERS SAY.

Betty Thorpe says: We have a lot of young plants in the garden now, but only our pink clarlda is out at present. Wo have some summer chrysanthemums, snapdragons, roses, l'uschlas, larkspurs and geraniums out, but they are big plants. The passion-fruit is In nower now, too. Eris McLachlan says: Isn’t everything dry now? Nearly everything in our garden is dying and cracks are coining in the earth. The harvest beetle is eating the leaves of our fruit trees and the nectarines are falling off. There will not be much fruit in the' orchard this year. Do they trouble your trees much, Peter? Mavis Lockloy says: Our rambling roses are glorious just at present. We have a hedge of them and a big lag hidden beneath a tangled mass or bloom. They are simply magnificent. We have beent eating green peas from our vegetable garden for about a month now, Peter They are delicious. Our gladioli are blooming. We have the common red, yellow-centred one, the pufple one, the yellowy-pink one ancl a reddish-mauve one with a purple centre. I have a nice white one somewhere, but It has not flowered yet. The hydrangea and geraniums and lavender are also blossoming very well. 1 love tile scarlet geranium. We have a very pretty rusebia Uowerlng, too.

Margarot Craig says: We havs a lot of strawberries growing. There are Tour rows over a chain long. They are all covered with fine wire-netting so the birds can’t get them; Sometimes the wire-net-ting is not properly pegged down, then' the birds liave a lovely time. Uncle has shot five for not keeping out of tha strawberries. Often for tea we have strawberries and cream. We have 18 young ducks for keeping the slugs and snails out or the . garden. To-day some of us searched all through our hedge Tor snails, and didn’t the -ducks love them. It is tunny watching them when they get a very large snail stuck irr their throats. Robert Toombs says: My garden has 12 kinds of seeds in, and most of them have grown'. I have some nice beetroot that will be ready to pick in a fortnight’s time. The peas have stood up to it, and I have had some to eat already, aim they were beautirul. I hope to have some ready for Christmas. Ruby Newcombe says: Daddy bad finished his hay making when that welcome rain came on Friday so I think he was rather lucky, don’t you? My garden looks very gay now, as the gladioli, larkspur, carnations, pansies and Canterbury bells are all open', while the red beet, lettuce, peas, caulillowers and onions are ready lu the vegetable garden.