WAR MEMORIAL TREES.
Sir,—l was struck with the photograph of the planting of war memorial trees at Point Chevalier which appeared in Thursday's lleuald, showing the planting of an Oriental plane, or similar tree. \\liv exotic foreign trees should bo used as war memorial trees in memory of Nsw Zealand's fallen eons is past my comprehension. Have the leaders of some of our public bodies and institutions lost {he sense of fitness! Are there CO suitable lone-lived native trees that can b» used ? What is the reason for this unsuitability of choice! Where a clump of 30 trees was to bo planted, what would have been more fitting than to have used kauri, rirnu, kahikatea, tOtara, purlri, karaka, taraire, mangaheo, kowhai, pohutukawa, rata or other suitable longdived native trees, set in a natural plant association ? These would grow with little care and live for centuries and remain a perpetual and Buitahle memorial to our illustrious dead. Geo. A. Gi»«enj Dominion N.Z. Institute of Horticulture.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19744, 17 September 1927, Page 14
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164WAR MEMORIAL TREES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19744, 17 September 1927, Page 14
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