NATIVE TREES & SHRUBS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20000, 27 July 1939, Page 10

NATIVE TREES & SHRUBS

SHOW FORESTRY CLASSES By “Totara” Again this year the Poverty Bay A. and P. Association is including some classes for forestry work in the coming November Show. This year the classes are being extended. There were some excellent exhibits last year, and it is hoped that aIL boys and girls who arc interested will again do their best to make this school section in the Show as interesting as possible.

The Show is in November, so you should begin your collections as soon as possible now. There are two main classes, one for exhibits of pressed leaves, flowers and fruits of native trees, and the other for timbers. Eacn class consists this year of two sections, one for primary pupils and one for secondary pupils of high schools or district high schools.

Here are the details:— 1. Pressed and mounted collection of leaves, flowers and fruit of 12 native trees or shrubs, each mounted on a

separate sheet of stiff white paper or cardboard. The size of the mount is 12in. by Bin. This point is important, as it is difficult to arrange exhibits of different-sized mounts. The fruit, that is pods, berries and so on, may be shown by coloured drawings. Notes may also be added or pasted on the mount. 2. Collection of 12 New Zealand ferns, pressed and mounted on similar sheets. 12in. by Bin. You Should try and show both upper and lower sides of the ferns and try to get ferns with the spores or seeds showing on the under side. 3. A collection of G useful New Zealand timbers, dressed on one side, with notes on the uses in each case. The specimens of timber are to be Gin. long, 2in. wide, and 1 in. thick. These and the notes arc to be pasted or fixed on a 2ft, square board, either 8-ply or stiff cardboard. “Totara” suggests you should mount three specimens across, paste the notes under each; then three more specimens in a row, with notes underneath each again. And do not forget the mount, for the whole exhibit is to be 2ft. each way. Suitable trees would be kahikalea,

rimu, totara, inatai, etc. You may find some ideas about the uses in fhc

“New Zealand Official Year Book.” Now, do not forget: There arc .extra classes this year, .so see if you can make the entries bigger and better than in 1938.