OUR NATIVE BUSH.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 149, 26 February 1915, Page 3

OUR NATIVE BUSH.

A LOSS TO SCIENCE. Before leaving New Zealand on Friday Dr Mortensen made a final appeal on behalf of the forests of the Domin- | ion. He said he noticed with regret the disappearance of the native bush, the loss of which he told a “Post” reporter would be a loss to the world of science, as there is nothing like it in any other part o fthe world. He consid. i ers that not only should efforts be i made to preserve what there is left of it, but that native trees should be replanted wherever possible. He does not agree with the general opinion that native trees will not grow again, or, if they do, only very slowly. The experience of men who had really tried to grow native trees, as in the EsplaI nade at Palmerston North, was that I the trees would make quite satisfacI tory growth, comparing more than faj vourably with im \rieties. He I found the dims Zealand | much colder than h ~ -cted, and | he attributes this to uie clearing of j the bush. The replanting of native trees !on a large scale would have,in his opia. | ion, a markedly favourable influence ! on the climate and rainfall.