LUPINES AT OCEAN BEACH.

Evening Star, Issue 18138, 30 November 1922, Page 5

LUPINES AT OCEAN BEACH.

10 THE EDITOR.

Sir, —I notice in Tuesday’s ‘Star’ a paragraph about the lupines andi who planted them. It may not be generally known that the late Mr J. J. Pryor, seedsman, was the first to introduce them, over thirty yearn ago, by sowing the seed between Tomahawk Lagoon and Tahuna Park. Mr Pryor had seen them used to stop the sand from drifting when he was in Australia, and imported some seed lor the same purpose hero. He got the Road Board and the Domain Board interested in the work, and Messrs ’Small!, Hancock. Brookes, and others took it up and planted lupine and marram grass, with the result that not only ‘(as you state) from St. Clair to Lawyer Head, but from St. Clair to Mr Smaill’s property at the end of the third beach, near - Bird Island, the lupines are at present a sight worth going some distance to see, I have noticed that tho sand dunes along the foreshore at New Plymouth are covered with the lupines, too. —I am, etc., 11. Duckworth. November 30.