TREE PLANTING

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 87, 10 October 1927, Page 10

TREE PLANTING

AN AUSTRALIAN AVENUE

FROM SYDNEY TO CANBERRA'

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 29th September.

The- Australian Forest League has in hand a big scheme for planting a purely, Australian avenue right through from Sydney to the Federal Capital. Preference in planting where possible is to be given to Australian trees of the genus Eucalyptus, the policy being to select those species which are natives of the districts in which they are to be planted. They will thus be suitable to the local climate and geological formations, and, in addition, to being more likely to grow well in their native place, will require a minimum of a,ttention in their young state.' It is believed, moreover, that, by selecting local species, each district will present its natural floral features, and will serve as'an education as well as a delight to people passing through the various districts along this great highway to and from the ~ capital of the mother State and the capital of the Commonwealth. Sm;h an avenue, with its distinctive ■Australian character, will, it is aho believed, be instructive to people coming from abroad, especially as it will ' bo linked up with the comprehensive scheme of tree-planting at Canberra itself, which Australia hopes to acclaim iv time as one of the garden cities of the world. • .

The hope of the Forest League is that it will be merely a matter of time when there will be another avenue of typically Australian trees from Melbourne, the former temporary seat of Government, to Canberra. Shire and municipal councils, as well as individuals, through from Sydney to Canberra, arc taking up enthusiastically the big scheme now in hand.

It is hoped, incidentally, by this project, to awaken the public conscience to the tragic neglect of forestry in the past in Australia, and to a realisation of what it means economically and from .» the aesthetic standpoint."