Nuhou, Volume II, Number 17, 23 September 1873 — Our Park [ARTICLE]

Our Park

Whieh we discuBscd in our No. C oi' thie voluu!e, | comeB up for conBicleration again in of some ta!k about AlgaroT)a. trees, We ought, we imust have a Bhaded retreat and proĒaenade,: thak wpl be a relief to the awful indoor monotony ! and dullness of thie respcctable t-ropical town. XtSipretty umbrageous appearance is praieed by, the strangcr who here for a day or iwo, and sees It from the Ifotel ba!conies; bufc after a of many days, and when outdoor movement has to be mainly confined to the ineffable dullness, and eoinmonplaee provincial appearance of Fort> and Merehantj and King and Queen streets ; wh?n aggravated with a heat whieh promotes the shirt sleeve ,style of eostume so disclosive of the pergonal gracee of our fellow townsmen 5 then tlie stranger gets weary, and says " what*s this dull toWn to me,'—sinec there is no shade, or fount, or pleasant plaza, or promenade, where he or ehe> ean see and meet and mingle with thebeauty and bravery, the taste and style, the ladies and the gentlemen, the nurses and the babies, and the aristoēraey and kanakraey of our Isles< ; But we will not eonsider tJjo wiehes of the ; sfcranger m thls matter at this time , as there is eertainly not enough of them eoming this way to ma]ke ifc pay s We ought to have a park fbr the sake of t-he liealtli of the town, We would not haye sueh need of jaunts to the country if we had sueh a ietreat as we eontemplate; whieh is no doubt poseible on the Waikiki plains with the I help uf the loeust family of trees, of whieh the Algaroba is a member. They are the saviors of . the desertj aud fiourish in ariQ plains when all [ other vegctation dies, We have lately scen them | green and vigorous on the burnt harren plains of Lanai. Wehave seen the Mes<juit, perhaps the !most useful of the family, feeding hungry īndians on the parelu\l plains of the Rio Virgen, and Colorado, where rain will not fall for nine months in the year; and the pod of the Syrian locust, the same as au Ameriean variety, whieh exudes a rieh syrup of sweet, subacid flavor, and highly nutritious, k «upposed to havebeen the " wildhoney : that feil Saint Jolm the Eaptist in the wildernesi?. We ean cultivate all varieties of trees on our fertile Kulaokahua plain, when we get the wacets gathere4 in from the !ilanoa Talley, But for the present, let us urge the government, (sinee there is no danger in plaxiting trees) to soinething out of some agrieu3tural fund, that may bc 6omewhere, we don % t know; as for inst;mee tlie thousand dollar tobaeeo prenuuui, whieh nobody wiU be fool enough to try for, and employ it in planting a Pt\rk of Aeaeiae or loeusts; that is to eay s tho Algaroba, the Mesquit,theblaekandyollow locu6t« and other wlueh l>ceides ehndiug and eooling will help to feed governinent mulee and \Tenkp*s; and might when treat-

iea faij, aml poi too,,be a £tand bj for all of us. But in all £erlou£nps£, wc cons!der tle cuUivaof a Park on iuoi;t acce£Blblc plain, anJ ofToreet on all oiu* |Surrounding ljill-sidi% as p. mf j 9Bure of tbe most vital importance tj tue v;el fare of tliis fair tropical citj.