FOREIGN TREES
Sir, —Why is it that we have to put up with foreign trees on our river banks and in avenues in the city? Poplars and willows may be all right in summer, when they are green, but in winter they are nothing but an eyesore with bare trunks and branches. What is wrong with matipos and broadleaf or other native trees? And what a nuisance willows planted on river banks can become. Take the Ashburton riverbed, which, in course of time became cluttered up with willows, broom, and gorse to such an extent as to cause flooding of adjacent land. How is it that settlers in a new land think they know better than the Creator of the universe, what is suitable in the way of arboreal growth?— Yours, etc., M.S.S. I AprU 11, 18H, ■ < ~
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26395, 13 April 1951, Page 5
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