TREES FOR GARDENS OF EXHIBITION
Preparations In Hand
Preparations for the planting .of ornamental trees in the gardens of the centennial exhibition are already being given attention, though no trees will actually be transferred to Bongotai till next winter.
Yesterday the horticultural sub-com-mittee of the exhibition management visited plantations at Russell Terrace, Kilbirnie Reserve, and Scott’s College. The trees in the Russell Terrace plantation, young ones specially planted for the- exhibition, were not considered likely to prove adequate, and it was decided to inspect the other two localities, from both of which it is possible that trees will be procured.
The method of transplanting young trees is to dig round them as soon as they have been selected, cutting the main roots so that they will form a multitude of minor rootlets in the immediate vicinity of the bole. The tree can then be transplated early next winter, with the comparatively sure knowledge that it will strike root in the exhibition grounds satisfactorily as soon as the spring flow of sap begins.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 68, 13 December 1938, Page 13
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