TREE-PLANTING IN DOMAIN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23060, 10 June 1938, Page 15

TREE-PLANTING IN DOMAIN

Sir, —May I venture to express the hope that none of the English trees now reaching the height of their autumn glory will bo destroyed to make room for the native ones shortly to be planted by the new domain road. In a few months' time they will give us the exquisite beauty of all their delicate shades of fresh young green. I love our native bush, but this colourful changing with the seasons is a perpetual refreshment to the eye and forms a welcome variation from the more sombre tints of most of our own trees. As they have been growing to my knowledge considerably over 40 years, they must have been planted by those who had tender memories of the homeland whence they had migrated, so these trees, beside their changing beauty, form a valuable link with Auckland's earlier days. Now that the Waitakere road is becoming open to the public, visitors and others who wish to study New Zealand bush can do so at the cost of an hour's motor run along a lovely scenic route, where the native trees can bo seen at their best in their natural surroundings, so there is little need to consider their convenience in this matter. Cecil A. B. Watson. St. Paul's Vicarage.