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Kōrero: Apples and pears

Samuel Marsden's pear tree

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Samuel Marsden's pear tree

Missionary Samuel Marsden brought the first pears and apples to New Zealand and planted them at the Church Missionary Society settlement at Kerikeri. One of the original pear trees, planted in 1819, still survives.

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by Peter Webster

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

John Palmer, Apples and pears – Pipfruit in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/17238/samuel-marsdens-pear-tree (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John Palmer, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.