CANTERBURY TREES

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28699, 24 September 1958, Page 14

CANTERBURY TREES

Series Of Articles Shortly

The stories of more than 100 historic trees in Canterbury will be published shortly in a series of articles by the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture. A sub-committee has been formed to do research and to write the articles. Its members are the acting director of the Botany Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (Mr A. J. Healy), the associate professor of rural education at Canterbury Agricultural College (Professor L. W. McCaskill), the secretary of the Canterbury branch of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture (Mr G. G. Henderson), Mr D. Combridge and Mr J. Barnett.

Among the historic Canterbury trees which will be dealt with are the “lone pine,” which is believed to have beeh grown in Christchurch from a seed of an Aleppo pine, which was brought to Christchurch from Gallipoli; the Gallipoli oak, which grows near the Bridge of Remembrance which is believed to have been brought from Gallipoli after World War I, by one of the Deans brothers: and the tree which Queen Elizabeth planted in the Botanic Gardens when she toured New Zealand in 1953-1954.

The histories of many varieties of trees in other parts of New Zealand are also being prepared for publication.