PINE PLANTATIONS.
THREATENED DESTRUCTION. DR. TILLYARD’S WARNING. NELSON, February 9. Dr. Tillyard, chief biologist of the Cawthron. Institute, voices a strong warning that the large timber-boring insect known, as the Giant Hcrntail (Sirex Juvencus) is gaining ground in New Zealand. Recently a gentleman from Seddon (Marlborough) brought to the Cawthron Institute some sections of healthy-growing pinus radiata of considerable size (six to eight inches in diameter) badly infested with this insect. Dr. Tillyard says that man in his unwisdom is supplying this insect with the very conditions needed to restore it to its prehistoric size and dominance by planting all over a new country with a wonderful climate immense pure stands of the very wood which it likes best of all, viz., pinus radiata. Failing a speedy remedy, tho new forests of pinus radiata in New Zealand will probably be so heavily infested with giant horntail that the trees will have no commercial value. Dr. Tillyard urges that stops should be taken immediately to import from Europe supplies of a parasite which will prey on the giant horntail.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 10 February 1927, Page 5
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178PINE PLANTATIONS. Wairarapa Age, 10 February 1927, Page 5
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