WILLOW TREES ON RIVER BANK.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 910, 8 June 1903, Page 3

WILLOW TREES ON RIVER BANK.

(To the Editor of the Times.) j {.’j,. Thanks to tho Beautifying Assofor its very ham'Uo.’uo transformation effected on the haul; of tho Tjirurieru ‘J'ha.6 its t isto and know! dye oi l.mcUcapc U npurrcut.o.l ..V us all there tan lie no uouoj , a.n ' , tho planting sens'.u i-'is aiino- • would it not he well to plant WII.OWS close to the breastwork ; wouln t.K-y not ai.oul a support to tho timber, am! m tuuo even replace it. Of course this means money, yet when the beauty and the appropriateness of that booty is considered. pity to allow tho season to piss uimv.'tl. course the weeping willow is cspeciafy lit tod for such places as river margins , there is not, as fur ns wo know, a native y , i tree that would d > bettor. And ' pur old Ill'll '.ho i life is embalmed n iciio fm morios a'Mmii mill!,'

wihn'W ' It is U.w, eover 1 thtl.s v S V .won’s |hn*d as e symbol or dissp- „ pointed love. Jo ihfi M.-rcmun„t Nomc u t Henrv VI.. Ham Ouumo, raid Muo ; vto snout Xm-o. tt. : e tv '"l u n,- , moTW.m -mu ", •emm or N-tmc has {•!von tan .■ «no m v ■* ' ' . ft'c'dl lhc°loafv festoon to don in cases of a crossed, have; no. but cm a second Should su-h things do occur even to-day, is sum' bv mi old vnyiuer. Hogged though iho lines bo they have lived for tho lust hundred or more years, and if tout bo no. fame what is V i “ All round my hut, I shall wear u green j Ail" round my hat, for a twelvemonth j and a day ; And if anybody aski mo the reason why 1 wear it, . . ■ i’ll tell them my tiuo-iove is gone tar away.” y-ji I,u’.’ ami other trees and shrubs su b able to river margins would inliucnce the Mb,Hi and tastes of our young people, were £ hov planted and looked carclully alter—not as one nutv note with regret the proMM,: neglected state of the trees placed m ■ centre of u few of our public streets. J.U, care, no cultivation given them, dins j. il, be regretted. However, happy are those who have a plot where they may sit mad muse contentedly : Hot wholly in the busy world, not quite Beyond it, lies the garden that I love. lain ’ ctc " U.11.W.