BEAUTY AND SONG
KOWHAIS FOR TUIS AND BELLBIRDS The Forest and Bird Protection Society was reecntly invited to offer advice helpful to the Raetihi Bor. ough Council which wishes to plant a quarter-acre section with trees suit able for native birds. In reply, Captain E. V. Sanderson, president of the society, suggests that as the section, is small it should be planted wholly with Kowliais, whose beautiful blooms give feasts of nectar for tuis and bellbirds. As the flowering period would extend through some weeks ft would be a worth-while place of call for the birds, which would not be so much attracted by fe few trees of various species bearing flowers or berries at different times. In the off-season.
too, the foliage of graceful Kowhais is a very pleasant ornament of a landscape. A Kowhai grove of Grey mouth is well known for its charming assemblies of tuis and bellbirds in tjie * spring. Captain Sanderson recommends the planting of Kowhais about fifteen feet apart, with tree lucerne between to serve as shelter for a few years ? until 'the young aristocrats are sturdy enough to thrive without the "nurses."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 59, 6 September 1939, Page 7
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189BEAUTY AND SONG Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 59, 6 September 1939, Page 7
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