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hundreds, I do not remember a specimen ; two there were, however, on 

 the shingle flats near the Coastal Hill. On it were established other 

 two bushes : a single specimen grew at the base of Pane-Paoa, the County 

 Boundary Hill ; another huge plant grew where the road strikes sharply 

 inland from the beach. Between that and the Tangoio homestead another 



Pioneer planting blackberry on the Napier- Tutira-Maungaharuru trail. 



hedge had been deliberately planted, seedlings dibbled in at regular 

 intervals. Blackberry bushes were scattered here and there about 

 the Tangoio homestead and along the bridle-track till it began to rise 

 to the hills. Half-way between the Tangoio Flats and First Fence there 

 was one bush. Between First Fence and Kaiwaka boundary gate there 

 were none, and but a single stunted specimen on the high pumiceous 



