CALIFORNIAN REDWOOD

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9027, 5 November 1925, Page 3

CALIFORNIAN REDWOOD

The attention that is being l ,aic ] te 1 '-.afforestation in Hhc LXuteu States may be gathered from the fact that seeds grown m New Zealand of the Californian Redwood are row being planted m Amenta in order 10 watch , for any dove - opmenls. The iTinbeiman. re [krlii" to this in the beptembe issue kunes: “Climate ami sod conditions in New Zealand appear to bo peculiarly suited to he . qniremenls of the Cnosl redwoods del several small experimental plantations there have made such rapid and satislactory giowdi that the Government and several private corporations are growing large numbers of seedling trees for forest planting. This year over 100 lb of redwood seed was slopped f.„m Hi.ml.oU and Mendocino Counties. California, for so«n ? in New Zealand forest musenes. A , few of the redwoods growing- ni New Zealand are now old enough to produce seeds, and Professor Woolbridge Metcalf, of the torestvv Division of the Tjuiveisaty ° j California, has just received a j quant it v of seed collected thexc j and forwarded by the New Zealand Forestry Service. fins * probably ,he lu;sf shipment of loi- . emu grown redwood seed ecu u j moved in this country. and is, j therefore. of great mieresf. -.cet - j litter, will be grown in Mm biied . eummv of the UnivtrmU ol Cali- , furnia M Berkelev and fhey v, i j |be carefully watehed to determnn 1 if the long sojourn of then paunu j on foreign soil has given them any , suggestion vi am a c h.n j tics.”