NATIVE PLANTS
SENT TO OTHER COUNTRIES QUITE AN INDUSTRY j (Froxn Our Resident Reporter) WELLINGTON, To-day. Quite an industry within the country is the dispatch of parcels of New Zealand native plants to widely scattered spots abroad. During the past month. Dr. H. 11. Allan, systematic botanist at the Plant Research Station. Palmerston North, has told the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, seven such parcels have Ueen sent overseas, the places varying from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to the Department of Agriculture, U.S.A. The Berlin Herbarium. I the National Herbarium. Melbourne. I the Gray Herbarium, U.S.A., and the ; University of Tomsk, in the United i States of Soviet Republics, also appear on the list. : In addition to these principal places i quite a number of smaller places have 1 been supplied.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 594, 21 February 1929, Page 1
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133NATIVE PLANTS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 594, 21 February 1929, Page 1
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