TRIMMED TREES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 177, 29 July 1939, Page 7

TRIMMED TREES.

STRAGGLING GUMS. ! TIMBER-CUTTING ACTIVITY. CORNWALL PARK WORK. Timber-cutting on a fairly big scale j is in the course of progress at Cornwall Park. It has been found necessary to severely prune about thirty large gum trees near the Manukau Road entrance, as mature growth ha* resulted in large branches straggling over electric power lines above the roadway. In each instance trees have been hard cut. The trunks at the moment present a sight of general mutilation, but euealypts are a very hardy tree family, and when the sap in the spring the heads will throw out new foliage and this tree border of the park will have a much more pleasing and symmetrical j appearance. The pruning operation has resulted in I a large amount of firewood and, in view! of the present cold snap and an attrae- 1 tive price, it is being readily disposed of. The general policy at Cornwall Park has been to preserve the trees and also plant many, the claims of native flora being well considered. On the northern slopes of the hill there are many greenfoliagcd trees which many visitors do not readily recognise. They are olives. whose real home is on the shore- of the Mediterranean. They were planted by the late Sir John Logan Campbell, and hopes were then held that it would mark the beginning of a commercial industry.