Haszard — Growth of Trees. 



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with high hills at the back cutting off the morning sun. The 

 soil is a stiff clay of rather poor quality. 



Mr. Hall informs me that the plants when set out were 

 seedlings that would average about 6 in. in height; but, as 

 Mr. Hall is himself sending a paper describing his method of 

 operations, it is not necessary for me to do more than give 

 the measurements as taken, except that I would like to em- 

 phasize his remarks on the advantage of more being done in 

 the way of planting native trees, and making it generally 

 known that a great many of them may be propagated from 

 cuttings. 



The girths given by me have in all cases been taken at 

 1 ft. from the ground, with the exception of the last on the 

 list, which is a magnificent specimen of macrocarpa, growing 

 on my place at Mount Pleasant, and whose gnarled roots 

 necessitated the measurements being taken at 3 ft. above the 

 surface. It is a beautiful symmetrical tree, 62 ft. in height, 

 and its branches cover a circle 216 ft. in circumference. From 

 what I can gather it was planted about 1872. All heights 

 have been taken approximately with an Abney level. 



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Name. 



Girth. 



Height. 



§1 

 "ft 



1 



2 



2a 



3 



4 



5 



6 



7 



9 

 11 

 12 

 13 

 14 

 15 

 16 

 17 

 18 

 19 

 20 

 21 

 22 

 23 



Kauri (Agathis australis)* 



it i, • • • • . . 



(-4. mooreii)\ 

 Purni (Yitex littoralis)l 



tt ti * • • • 



Matai (Podocarpus spicata) 

 Tot^ra (Podocarpus totara) 



Miro (Podocarpus ferruginea) 

 Kainkatea {Podocarpus dacrydioides) 

 Rinm (Dacrydium cupressinum) 



ti . ft • * • • 



Kawaka (Libocedrus doniana) 

 Tanekahd, (Phyllocladus trichomauoides) 



ti n * • 



Ma.mmoth of California (Wellingtonia seguoia) 

 Blue-gum (Eucalyptus globulus) 

 Peppermint gam (Eucalyptus amygdalina) . . 

 Stringy-bark gum (EticalypniH obliqua) 



rt tt 



Cupressus macrocarpa 



1877 

 1878 

 1878 

 1872 

 1877 

 1877 

 1873 

 1873 

 1876 

 1876 

 1873 

 1874 

 1878 

 1875 

 1876 

 1878 

 1873 

 1872 

 1875 

 1875 

 1875 

 1872 



* Cone-bearing for three years, f From New Caledonia. \ Branches 

 at 3 ft. from the ground. § Well sheltered. 



