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Kauri Growth Studies

Document Type
Various
Project Creator
Forest Research Institute
Current Holder
Archives New Zealand
Accession Number
TTT001041
Old Accession Number
TTT000041
Location
Wellington Archives
Archives Number
F, Series 1, 48/4/1, 2
Period
1955 - 1957
Volume
Approx. 100 pp
Content
Contains very brief notes on the 1957 Kauri Conference including statements about the kauri seed storage experiment and brief method of experiment (by D S Preest), comparative growth rates between Northland and Auckland forest areas (R J Cameron), thinning in kauri forest (J. Beekhuis) and growth study plots in released kauri (R J Cameron). There is a small report on 'Vegetative Propagation of Kauri' at Waipoua (I. J. Thulin, Forest Geneticist) covering propagation by grafting, branch-cutting and root cutting.It contains the same 'Kauri Conference Notes' for 1957 as another Wellington Archive file that is already recorded, 'Kauri Growth Studies - Kauri Conference,' 1957 - 1960 (AADY, W3564, 32, 48/4/1, 2).
Source
Various - Northland, Auckland, Waipoua
Future Work
No.
Sort
Indexing is desirable.
Publish
No
Researchers
D S Preest, R J Cameron, I J Thulin, Forest Geneticist J Beekhuis
Security
High
Species
kauri (Agathis australis)
Keywords
Growth Rates, Kauri, Kauri Conferences, Propagation, Releasing, Seed, Vegatative Propagation
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