Chance To Export Plants Studied

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30688, 2 March 1965, Page 18

Chance To Export Plants Studied

<N ew Maland Pr«« Xz.octation) NEW PLYMOUTH, March 1. Patent riirhts and export possibilities for plants for New Zealand will.be investigated by a New Plymouth man during an extensive three-month overseas tour.

During his tour Mr Davies will spend five weeks on the west coast of North America and will then visit other states before leaving for Europe. Before he left New Plymouth today on the first leg of his trip, Mr Trevor Davies, managing-director of Duncan and Davies Ltd., New Plymouth, said: “If we want to export we must find out what they want. _ “After seeing the Department of Industries and Commerce a few months ago, and in partial association with other New Zealand nurserymen, we feel there is definite potential in the export of nursery stock from New Zealand. “Overseas nurserymen who visited New Zealand during the last 12 months maintain we have a potential range of plant material here that is known botanically overseas but not commercially. “Dr. Walter E. Lammerts, a prominent American horticulturist of Los Angeles, who visited New Plymouth last year, took away 30 plants which were new to him. His company was to work on them and do something with them in northern California. “In New Zealand we use a lot of variegated material to lighten the scene whereas in America, generally speaking,:

they have not reached the stage where variegated ma terial is appreciated to the full value.”