Baber. — On the Growth of Transplanted Trees. 



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Einiu lias overtopped the other native pines, owing to favour- 

 able situation. 



Totara comes next to rimu ; then follow tanekaha and rniro. 



As I said in 1885, the period is too short to form an opinion 

 as to relative profitable values. These records are data for 

 others to work upon. 



A writer in the "New Zealand Herald" suggested that 

 information as to the Norfolk Island pines growing in Official Bay, 

 Allotment 12, Section 7, Auckland, should be given. 



These trees were planted under the care of the late Bev. 

 Walter Lawry, Superintendent of the Wesleyan Mission, about 

 the year 1844 or 1845. The height of the tallest is 81 feet ; 

 girth of bole 2 feet from the ground, 8 feet. 



The growth of this is outdone by one growing in Mr. Brook- 

 field's grounds, Allotment 10, Section 34, Onehunga, planted in 

 1852 by Sergeant McMahon, of the N.Z. Fencibles, for Dr. 

 Mahon, senior surgeon of the same force. 



This tree, standing by itself on level ground, conspicuous all 

 around Onehunga, is the most handsome transplanted pine in 

 the neighbourhood of Auckland. It has attained during thirty- 

 five years a height of 89 feet, with a circumference of 9 feet, 

 2 feet above the ground. 



Of the value of the timber of the Norfolk Island pine I have 

 not been able to obtain information. 



Note. — In the table, vol. xviii., page 314, the age of the kauri is given 

 as 16 years ; Mr. Chalmers, the planter, informs me that it was planted in 

 1865, consequently it should have been 20 years old, not 16. 



