SOWING RARE NATIVE PLANTS
Leon Hampson-Tindale, whose address is “opp. Park Rd., Western Hutt Rd., Lower Hutt”, writes : —- I am a junior member of the Society, and I have made a hobby of collecting seeds of rare native plants, e.g. taurepo, and ‘ planting them in bush where they have not grown previously. If you know of any other junior members interested in this, will you please ask them to communicate with me for the purpose of “swapping” seeds. Will .any junior interested write to Leon direct. In bush which has been so changed by man or by animal pests that it is never likely to regain its natural state and in plantations or gardens, this is a very worthwhile activity and we congratulate Leon on it. We feel, however, that we must sound a note of warning where untouched bush is concerned : to plant strange seeds in that might not be so goodit would be going contrary to nature.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 105, 1 August 1952, Page 14
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