NATURE’S CHANCE
PLANTATIONS OF NATIVE TREES. On a sandy quarter-acre of Paekakarjki, Captain Sanderson has had a remarkable with a plantation of about seventy species of coastal native trees. When he began his task 'fifteen years ago he left lupins to serve as.a shelter until the young trees were strongly established. The section . is exposed to southerlies and westerlies, but the trees have protected one another, as they do in nature's own forests. Today the plantation has a height of 25ft. in some parts; it is flourishing, it does not look man-made; indeed, an average visitor would believe that it was a piece of natural native bush.
The explanation of this success is that Captain Sanderson has been a careful co-operator with Nature, and has followed the example set by the “great mother" in the making of forests. He doos not tidy up under the trees. He leaves fallen foliage and twigs to decay into humus, which retains moisture and provides nomishment.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 April 1941, Page 6
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