PLANE TREES
OCTAGON GROWTHS COMMENDED POSSIBILITY OF FURTHER PLANTING When discussing the question of suitable trees for street planting, at the Dunedin Amenities Society meeting yesterday, mention was made of the healthy appearance of the plane trees in the Octagon, and Mr D. Tannock was asked if it would be possible to plant more of this same type of tree in and around the city. Mr Tannock replied that these were hybrid planes, which, had been specially obtained from one single tree .in Kew Gardens. This particular tree was the parent of most of the plane trees in London reserves, and was known as the London plane. He regretted that the young plane trees obtainable in New Zealand were not of the same healthy type, and were therefore unsuitable for street plantinf. Mr Tannock said he would sec what could he done by way of propagating shoots from the existing trees.
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Evening Star, Issue 23499, 13 February 1940, Page 12
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151PLANE TREES Evening Star, Issue 23499, 13 February 1940, Page 12
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