The Naturalisation of Animals & Plants in New ZealandThe University Press, 1922 - 607 pages |
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... seeds , mostly garden vegetables . Some of these are known to have survived . Previous to that date the native inhabitants had brought with them from Polynesia , and perhaps from Melanesia , certain species of plants which they ...
... seeds , mostly garden vegetables . Some of these are known to have survived . Previous to that date the native inhabitants had brought with them from Polynesia , and perhaps from Melanesia , certain species of plants which they ...
Page 10
... seed ; and 14 species of Orchids ( out of a total of 53 species , the remainder being endemic ) furnished with very minute light seeds which are easily carried by wind . These facts tend to show that species whose seeds can be ...
... seed ; and 14 species of Orchids ( out of a total of 53 species , the remainder being endemic ) furnished with very minute light seeds which are easily carried by wind . These facts tend to show that species whose seeds can be ...
Page 11
... seeds and spores , and though the usual course of the wind - currents is not so directly from west to east , yet such high winds apparently do occur , and that not unfrequently . Another agency by which seeds are carried to oceanic ...
... seeds and spores , and though the usual course of the wind - currents is not so directly from west to east , yet such high winds apparently do occur , and that not unfrequently . Another agency by which seeds are carried to oceanic ...
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... seeds may have been accidentally introduced . The voyage was one for exploration only , as far as New Zealand was ... seed of all sorts of vegetables , stones and the pips of our fruits , wheat , millet , maize , and in fact every ...
... seeds may have been accidentally introduced . The voyage was one for exploration only , as far as New Zealand was ... seed of all sorts of vegetables , stones and the pips of our fruits , wheat , millet , maize , and in fact every ...
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... seeds of the best kinds . " No list of these seeds is given , though cabbages , onions , and leeks are mentioned , but they were in all probability the same sorts as were sown later at Queen Charlotte Sound . Apparently not one of them ...
... seeds of the best kinds . " No list of these seeds is given , though cabbages , onions , and leeks are mentioned , but they were in all probability the same sorts as were sown later at Queen Charlotte Sound . Apparently not one of them ...
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abundant Acclimatisation Society Agricultural Department animals appear Ashburton attacked Auckland district Auckland Society introduced Australia Bay of Islands beetle birds breeding brown trout bush Canterbury Society received Chatham Islands Christchurch common cultivated deer destroyed distributed dogs Dunedin early eggs Family fish flowers fruit further record garden escape hatched Hatchery Hawke's Bay Hokitika Hooker's list imported increase insect Invercargill Lake land large number larvæ Linn Manual Maori Maskell moth native naturalised Nelson Society North Island occurring opossums Otago Society pest pheasants Philpott pigs plants ponds probably Queen Charlotte Sound rabbits rats recorded by Kirk recorded in Hooker's reported River salmon says season seeds seen sheep shipment shipped Society liberated South Southland Southland Society sparrows spawning species specimens spread starlings Stewart Island stoats streams taken Taranaki Tasmania trees W. W. Smith Waikato Waitaki Wanganui waste places weasels weed Wellington Society Whangarei wild young Zealand