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River in Canterbury. There, some twenty trees are growing quite 

 irregularly in the poorer parts of the land where it is covered with 

 manuka scrub, and they were certainly not planted. Mr T. H. Foote 

 of Christchurch tells me that similar trees grow at the glens of 

 Tekoa homestead ten or twelve miles to the north-west, and while 

 he thinks the seeds are too heavy to be wind-blown, yet the prevalent 

 wind is from the north-west, and it occasionally blows with great 

 violence. 



W. W. Smith reported it in 1903 as spreading in the Ashburton 

 County. 



T. W. Adams of Greendale, Canterbury, a leading authority on 

 arboriculture, says: 



Pinus pinaster has so well established itself in some parts of the country 

 as to have been considered by some enthusiast or other as a native, and 

 many years ago seeds were sent to Europe as such, and named Pinus 

 Nova-Zealandica. I have seen it myself growing quite in a natural manner 

 in all sorts of unlikely places but I look upon it as a very useless pine to 

 cultivate. 



Mr J. Attwood (March, 191 6) says this species is plentiful at Riverhead 

 in the Waitemata district. A few miles out of Silverdale on the Auck- 

 land Road, hundreds of acres of scrub-covered land are sprinkled with 

 this tree. 



Pinus radiata, Don. (P. insignis) 



Cockayne says of this species that it is spreading naturally in 

 pumice country about Taupo, and is becoming common. He con- 

 siders that it is distributed by wind, as is the case on the Hurunui 

 Plains, and at Glyn Wye. Similar evidence is given in the report 

 of the Royal Commission on Forestry in 191 3 (probably from the 

 same source), where it is stated to be seeding freely and to be 

 spreading, especially on manuka country. Maxwell also reports 

 it as spreading to a distance from plantations, but attributes its 

 dispersal to birds. He states that the seedlings occur mostly on clay 

 banks or bare clay places. 



A correspondent of Mr Jas. Drummond's says it grows strongly 

 at Manganuiteao, west of Ruapehu, and reproduces itself among the 

 scrub. 



Sequoia sempervirens, Endl. Californian Red-wood 



Self-sown seedlings of this species were found in the plantations 

 at Hora Hora (Whangarei) in April, 19 19. 



