New Zealand plants and their story . ain-beech {Nothofagus clijfortioides) in the there were small kahikatea {Podocarpus dacrydioides)forests near the coast, of which the already-mentioned RiccartonBush in Christchurch City (generously donated to the nation by theoriginal owners, the Deans family) is the sole surviving greater part of the district is, or originally was, covered withlow tussock-grassland of the usual type, with fell-field at the higheraltitudes. Agriculture on ploughable land consists principally of rotationfarming, in which wheat plays an impor
New Zealand plants and their story . ain-beech {Nothofagus clijfortioides) in the there were small kahikatea {Podocarpus dacrydioides)forests near the coast, of which the already-mentioned RiccartonBush in Christchurch City (generously donated to the nation by theoriginal owners, the Deans family) is the sole surviving greater part of the district is, or originally was, covered withlow tussock-grassland of the usual type, with fell-field at the higheraltitudes. Agriculture on ploughable land consists principally of rotationfarming, in which wheat plays an important part. A conspicuousfeature of distribution, from the agricultural standpoint, is theinability to successfully grow hard turnips each season owing to the 190 NEW ZEALAND PLANTS. ravages of aphides and diamond-backed moths, and consequentlywinter catch-cropping with forage oats is practised. Owing to thesomewhat severe winter, many garden-plants which succeed wellfarther north, or even farther south, cannot be successfully Piece of Carmichaelia Petriei, showing the spinous Ijranchlets,rigid habit, and absence of leaves. [Esmond Atkinson del. The North Otago Botanical District is distinguished from all theother districts of New Zealand by the extreme degree of adaptationsagainst drought reached by certain of its plants—, Carmichaelia NORTH OTAGO AND FIORD DISTRICTS. 191 Petriei, Pimelea sericeo-villosa, Myosotis albosericea—as well as thelarge percentage of such adaptations throughout its flora. There area considerable number of noteworthy plants confined, or almost so,to the district—, Poa pygmaea, a grass with rigid leathery leavesforming small low cushions, so far found only on the summit ofMount Pisa ; one or two buttercups ; Acaena Buchanani; two orthree species of Carmichaelia ; a forget-me-not {Myosotis albosericea),silvery-white with a covering of silky hairs ; a dwarf koromiko withthick leaves bluish-green in colour (yeronica Buchanani) ; and th
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