TREE PLANTING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20222, 7 October 1927, Page 3

TREE PLANTING.

MR TANNOCK’S REPORT. OVER HALF-MILLION TREES PLANTED. The following report by Mr D. Tannock, superintendent of city reserves, was laid before the City Council on Wednesday night:— Wo have completed the tree-planting at Whare Flat for the present season, and the men are now at Waipori. There are a few odd patches on Flagstaff to fill up, and it is expected that the planting at Waipori will be completed for this season in another fortnight. There are still a large number of trees in the nursery, and if the season is favourable for planting when the men return from Waipori I propose to plant up a portion of the area recently acquired from Laing Bros, on Flagstaff. The present planting season has been a very favourable one, and though there have been hard frosts at Waipori the trees planted last autumn are looking very well. A list of the trees sent out of our nursery and planted during the present season is as follows: Waipori.—Pinus radiata, 269,000 ; Pinus pondorosa, 32,000; Pinus strobus, 14,000; Douglas fir (Oregon), 37,000; macrocarpas, 21,000; poplars,. 3750; English beech, 4000_; total, 380,750. Water Catchment, mainly at Whare Flat.—Pinus radiata, 152,000; macrocarpas, 6500; Thuya plicata (red - cedar), 3800; Douglas fir (Oregon), 5000; uoplars, 3750;—total, 171,550. Total trees sent out, 552,300. Approximate acres planted, 900.