Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1900. Trees to Resist Salt-storms.

Manawatu Herald, 5 July 1900, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1900. Trees to Resist Salt-storms.

The Agricultural Department has just published another of its useful leaflets on shelter trees for the west coast of this island, and we suggest its careful perusal by the members of the Borough Council, who have in hand the planting at the Foxtou Sanatorium. The Insignis and the Macrocarpa have to be abandoned, though they are such fast growers and the Pinus Contorta is recommended in their plaoe, as being very like the Insignis in appearance and is nearly as quick growing. It stands the salt-gales with better effect than any other pine. There are also the P. Austriaca and P. Maritima, and the A. imbricata. The Abies, menziesii, whilst standing the salt well, i9 a alow grower. The only native plant considered capable of resisting the salt spray is the taupata.

To those who are interested in planting the leaflet will be most acceptable as there are other trees suggested for use after the heavy break wind has got a start. There are also some evergreen shrubs and hedge plants mentioned as capable of standing salt-spray, amongst them being the Eunonymous japonica, the wild olive, Escallonia rubra, the African box-thorn, and the N.Z. flax

We have but given an outline of the leaflet so as to endeavour to get an interest taken in it, as the suggestions are of much value to us in

this district, The leaflet is like good words, costs little, indeed nothing, the Government giving it away, and is worth much. .