FREE TREES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 29 June 1935, Page 13

FREE TREES

MANY APPLICATIONS CANTERBURY PROGRESS LEAGUE'S I’LAN Free distribution of trees to local bodies, fanners, and others wishing to plant them for shelter belts and similar purposes, a plan organised by the Canterbury Progress League, has aroused wide interest, in Canterbury (says the "Times"). The organiser of the League (Mr P. R. Cliinie) stated that an exceptionally huge number of applications had been received since lasl Monday when the announcement was made. This year's planting scheme gave every indication of eclipsing the record of the previous two years. The scheme is being conducted with the co-operation of the State Forest Service. Only tin* varieties of which the service lias a. surplus are available, and a condition is that no applicant should receive more than 5000 trees. To cover the labour costs a charge of 2s per hundred trees is made, but rail and other freight charges arc to be paid by the consignees.

The following varieties of trees are available: —Prickly cone pine (a good shelter tree; not quite so fast growing as the insignis pine. Recommended tor coastal planting); Douglas fir or Oregon pine, (for shelter and timber product ion, suitable for planting oil foothills and in moist districts). Western rod cedar (produces light durable timber; unsuitable for dry soils; thrives better in moist districts); Macrocarpa (excellent for shelter, limber and hedges; timber durable in ground and provides good firewood ; suitable for seacoast planting). Insignis pine (quick growing siiclter and timber tree; hardy and thrives on practically all soils; timber suitable for cases and fuel). Douglas fir or Oregon pine (for shelter and timber production ; suitable for planting on foothills ami in moist districts). Fuglemanii. spruce (grows on high mountain slopes of Western North America; timber light, soft and close-grained ; mostly grown in the Dominion for ornamental purposes).