TREE PLANTING

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 146, 22 June 1928, Page 11

TREE PLANTING

A HUNDRED THOUSAND NATIVES NOT OVEBLOOKED Tree planting is again in full swing as one of the city relief works for B class men, and though the allotment, £1000, plus subsidy, of the £13,500 that is now available for relief works, is not great, that ,£IOOO to £1300 or £1400 will in a few years' time make a difference to the appearance of the Town Belt, and therefore to Wellington as a whole. The programme will be very much the same as that carried out last winter, that is,*planting over about 100 acres, 1000 trees to the acre. Last year's young trees are ■ doing very well, though so far they "have to bo looked for. Older plantings, as in Central Park, on the Tinakori Hills, and below Kelburn Park, are already sizeable trees, and the lines of trees put out parallel to and a little below the scenic road along the crest of Mount Victoria have taken firm hold and decided to make a show of it, though those are much later plantings than those mentioned above. The general plan now being followed is to group various trees in thirties or forties, that later on there will be a pleasing contrast of foliage. Pines and oucalypts form a big part of tho scheme, but.it is considered that they arc necessary as "nurse trees, 1' sheltering less hardy varieties until they are established. . . ' The list last winter, to bo generally followed this season, was as follows:— Natives: Pohutukawas, 10,000; karakas, 5000; ngaios, 4000; dodonca viseosa (one of the. ake-akes), 1000; pittosporusus, 1000; veronicas, 1000; hoherias, 1000;" crocarpas, GOOD; pinus radiata (or insigolearias and senecios, 1000. Exotics: Macarpas, 6000; pinus radiata (or insignis), 20,000; pinus niusicata, 10,000; acacias, 2000; eucalypts, 20,000; escallonias, 1500; laurestinus, 1000. Tho other 16,000 was composed of smaller quantities of various other native and introduced trees. ' ' '■■