KAURI GROVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 160, 8 July 1937, Page 9

KAURI GROVE.

REMARKABLE GROWTH.!

ATTRACTIVE SPECIMENS.

CORNWALL PARK TREES

On the border of the drive that leads into Cornwall Park from Green Lane Road a number of kauri trees planted in a grove some years ago have made remarkable progress. They have now reached a stage when visitors to Auckland may obtain some idea of a tree that is typical of the Auckland province, and one of the finest milling timbers that is known.

They are not as large as some of the kauris which grow on the Waitakere Ranges, but they have supplied proof that in Auckland the kauri will respond rapidly to cultivation, and in its early stage.*, with its clean bole and bright green, crinkled leaf, it is a very attractive specimen of New Zealand's flora. Since the opening of the new drive at the Green Lane end of the park a policy of planting New Zealand trees along its borders has been carried out, with result that there are now fine specimens of pohutukawas, puriri, rimu, titoki and kowhai. Years ago there was a forest on the slopes of the hill which is the central spot of one of Auckland's finest parks, and to-day a plan \s being carried out to restore some of the best-known native trees.

Some of them have made such good headway that it has been necessary to thin them out. It has been found that transplanting can be carried out with marked success.