10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THOUSAND-JACKET»
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Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases ...
Thousand-Jacket, n. a North Island name for Ribban-wood (q.v. ), a New Zealand
tree. Layer after layer of the inner bark can be stripped off. I888. Cassell's '
Picturesque Australasia,' vol. iii. p. 210: “ Koninny [sic], raupo, toi-toi, supplejack,
...
Edward Ellis Morris, 2011
The native bush of Five Fingers, Supple Jack, Thousand Jacket, young Rimus,
young Kahikatea, Rewarewa, Clematis and huge tree ferns, were all too
magnificent to destroy. They also gave sanctuary for the deer to retreat into.
However, the ...
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City of the Plains: A History of Hastings
Yet some ratepayers objected because seeds cost money and others were
displeased because a thousand jacket trees round the cenotaph were cut down.
The old library site was made into a public car park to help cope with growing
traffic ...
Koninny, raupo, toi-toi, supple-jack, thousand-jacket, and the like, are names of
things known well enough to the inhabitants of Napier and Taranaki, but to the
average stay-at-home Englishman they are nouns which only vexatiously
illustrate ...
Westby Brook Perceval (Sir.), 1895
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The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands
Thousand- jacket. Houhcre. Feb. to April. Subsp. obtuslfolia. Leaves
membranous, elliptic-lanceolate or oblong, subacute or obtuse, sharply toothed
or spinulose-toothed ; petioles short. Fascicles 3-4 flowered. — T. Kirk, Forest Fl.
N.Z. t". 54, f.
The most widely distributed of the native species are the following : — (1.)
Eriococcus Hoheria — -on the thousand-jacket (Hoheria). (2.) E. multispinus —
on llubus, Knightia, Cyalhodes, and Gaultheria. (3.) E . leptospermi — on
Leptosperrnum ...
New Zealand. Dept. of Agriculture. Biological and Horticultural Division, 1904
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Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Ribbonwood, lacebark, and thousand-jacket, are most appropriate names, all
applied to Gaya, Hoheria, and Plagianlhus. Lemonwood is a good name for
Pittosporum eugenioides, though the property is more obviously in the leaves
than in ...
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Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture
Eridcoccus IIoheriw—on the thousand-jacket (Ilohcria). (2.) E'. multispinus—on
Ilubus, Knightia, Cyalhodes, and Gaultlzerz'u. (3.) E. leptospermi—on
Lepfospermum (manuka). (4.) E. pallz'dus—on Myoporum latum (the ngaio) and
Elaocarpus ...
New Zealand. Dept. of Agriculture, 1907
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Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
Hitherto my friend Mr. Blackmore Lane has accompani-d me at the proper season
to search for 0. virescens on the Hokowhitu property of Mr. James Ritchie, near
the banks of the Manawatu River, where Hoheria populnea (thousand- jacket ...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland
... (thousand jacket), the former — a Longicorne Coleopteron, he said they eat
raw, but the latter — Charagia virescens, cannot be eaten raw, but is very nice
food when roasted. " Houhere " is the Hoheria populnea — " Cunn," in which we
have ...
