An exceptional crop of acorns this year will be of value to local body and school oak planting programmes. The only acorns now saved, the Director of the Botanic Gardens, Christchurch (Mr J. A. McPherson) said, were those of the English dry area oak, and these were being sown to replace less suitable types of oak in Canterbury. They were distributed, as seed or plant, to local bodies and schools. The dry area oak was much more suitable to Canterbury, it did not take scale, it held its leaves at least six weeks longer than the others, and it grew more quickly. Acorns of the other type were not saved, though quite a number of persons still came to collect them for pig feed. Years ago, Mr McPherson said, rights used to be let for the taking of acorns, but this practice had apparently stopped.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1940, Page 8
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