GIFT TREES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 719, 19 July 1929, Page 18

GIFT TREES

Auckland Sends Seeds to Sacramento BEAUTIFYING A COLLEGE Sacramento—that nature-loving city of California—has had the assistance of an Auckland organisation in its latest move in beautifying. fpo add to the attractions of the grounds of the new Junior College, the Sacramento Advertising Club carried out a plan of appealing to advertising clubs In all parts of the world for trees. The request to the Auckland Advertising Club met -with an immediate response, but it was found that it was not possible to send trees from New Zealand to Sacramento, owing to a regulation enforced by the United States Department of Agriculture. This obstacle was overcome when the Auckland Club forwarded a package of seeds to the Sacramento Club. The seeds, supplied by a firm of nurserymen In Taranaki, contained a representative selection of New Zealand forest trees and shrubs, especially those sought for beautifying. A reply from the Sacramento Club has just been received notifying the transfer of the seeds to the college authorities and the planting in the grounds. The seeds are expected to flourish, as New Zealand’s climate has been found to be similar to that of the American Pacific Coast. SPLENDID PARKS Sacramento is proud of its justlyearned reputation as a city eager to foster beauty. Around Sutter’s Fort, the stronghold of the early settlers, an area was set aside for planting as a park. The results of this movement are splendidly apparent today. Around the Californian Parliamentary Houses is another huge park with an amazing collection of trees and plants from all parts of the world. No effort was spared to stock the park with trees from other countries. Here, New Zealand has an extensive representation. Even the prosaic cabbage tree has its place. California's cities mostly uphold tho title of the Golden State, but other cities in North-Western America — Portland, in Oregon, and Seattle, in Washington State—are well-known as communities with live interests in parks and gardens. The Sacramento Advertising Club has stated its pleasure in showing Aucklanders who are on a visit to the American city the growth of the transferred New Zealand trees.