LOST LOVELINESS
ROYAL FEASTS FOR COWS. “The movement for the careful preservation of historic trees is a very good one." remarked a member of the Executive of the Forest and Bird Protection Society, “but I wish it would gc further, and include some stands of native forest which have historic associations.
“I remember with sorrow the loss of a beautiful stand —several acres of tete a-weka (olearia augustifolia), at the end of Ward Parade, Bluff, some years ago. This was the only spread of that tree (a native of Stewart Island) on the mainland but cattle were allowed to destroy the whole of the bush, which was not fenced.
“My feelings about that devastation can be well understood when I quote a statement of the late Mr Thomas Kirk, author of ‘The Forest Flora of New Zealand.’ published in 1889. ‘This rare and little known species of olearia is one of the most beautiful plants yet discovered,’ he wrote. ‘The flowers about two inches in diameter hav a rich purple disc, surrounded by snowwhite rays.’
“The tree grows to a height of about 20 feet with a noble canopy of foliage which may have a width of 30 feet.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1939, Page 3
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