A Pine Curiosity.
A Garden Corner.
CURIOSITIES of one sort and another in garden subjects are common, and many such are brought to me. I do not recall a more interesting one, however, than was given -me by a local wood merchant the other way. It was a six-inch block of Pinus Insignis, in which a cone had become embedded. The cone must have dropped and lodged in the fork of a young branch. With the passage of years the cone was grown over almost completely and was not apparent in the wood until sawn up, when the formation and structure of the cone had become part of the living tree. Knowing the fast growing qualities of the Insignis, the cone may have dropped to its resting place ten or twelve years ago. T. D. LENNIE.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20310, 21 May 1934, Page 9
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136A Pine Curiosity. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20310, 21 May 1934, Page 9
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