NAPOLEONIC WILLOWS.
TREES IN NEW ZEALAND. [from our own correspondent. ] LONDON. Sept. 3. The visit of tho Prince of Wales to St. Helena is tlie inspiration for a writer in the Greenock Telegraph to recall the story of tho New Zealand willows. He tells how the French immigrant vessel Comte de Paris called at St. Helena and how cuttings were taken from tho willow tree that grew beside Napolean's grave. Afterwards when the French settled in Akaroa in 1840 the cuttings were planted, and in due course cuttings from the magnificent trees were replanted in' Christ-church and other parts of Now Zealand. It is stated that tho willow trees growing in Now Zealand are a marvellous improvement in luxuriance, of foliage on the European species. It would .be difficult to find, at any rate in Northern Europe, such fine specimens as the average trees growing beside tho River Avon in Christchurch.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19150, 16 October 1925, Page 15
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