[Fwd: Re: Those Trees From Monteray]

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Subject: Re: Those Trees From  Monteray
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:33:12 +1200
From: Olwen Williams <olwen@ihug.co.nz>
To: tomory@xtra.co.nz
References: <412A6949.3040809@xtra.co.nz>

My grandfather (C Morgan Williams, MP for Kaiapoi 1935-194??) was a
great advocate of Pinus Radiata.  In the 1930's he was responsible for
depression planting in the Kaiapoi area north of Christchurch especially
at Pines Beach.  Another Morgan Williams, commissioner for the
environment in New Zealand is his grandson, and a cousin of mine.

I remember granddad telling me about different rooting patterns for
Pinus Radiata in clay and sandy soil.  There was considerable damage
done some years ago (probably 1960's) to forests at Eyrewell in
Canterbury in windy conditions.  He said that that was due to shallow
rooting in heavier soils than the coastal plantings would have.

Incidentally when my parents built a house around 1960 a feature area
was panelled with "knotty pine", and a plaque for my Grandfather in the
Kaiapoi school hall in the late 1960's was mounted on birdseye pine.
I'm not sure pine would get the same feature treatment in New Zealand today.


Tony and Moira Ryan wrote:

Doobieous wrote:
--- Tony and Moira Ryan <tomory@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
 >>Another local example would be the healthy and
vigorous specimens of both the Monterey cypress
 >>(Cupressus Macrocarpa)and Monterey pine (Pinus
 >>radiata here, doing it seems much better in NZ than
 >>in their native California.

>>One reason for this improvement may well be that

Pinus radiata is our principal plantation tree in NZ, accounting for (at a guess) around 95-98% of our considerable commercial plantings. The reason it has become the favourite is its phenomenal growth rate making it possible to fell for poles and chipping after no more than twenty five years and for quality logs from about ten years later. This contrasts with Scots pine plantings I saw in England while a student which were just reaching millable age at eighty years.



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