NOXIOUS WEEDS.
TO THE.EIHTOR OF THffi PRESS-
. Sir, —The advioe tendered to the farmers and to all cultivators of the soil, contained in G. G. Stead's report (by D. B. McLaren) in your issue pi 6th October last, it is to be hoped has been more extensively followed the past season than hitherto has been the cractice.
Canterbury is not, for many years yet, likely to have our Canal reserves utilised for the original purpose the old Provincial Government intended, long anterior to the opening of the tunnel to Lyttelton. Who, I may ask, is to blame that these reserves are allowed year after year to grow luxuriantly crops of noxious weeds, especially the hardy thistle, whose seeds when ripened get wafted in millions far and near, quite too many finding a resting place in the city and euburban gardens. Dock weeds abound in very many unoccupied sections of land in the city and also along some of the gutters of same. If these are not dug up; we may be sure of another supply of noxioua weeds next season. *
The City Council can surely mitigate this evil, at least so far as our streets are concerned.—Yours, &c,
Look Sharp. Christchiirch, 27ch November. ■■ . r " t
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 8963, 29 November 1894, Page 6
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205NOXIOUS WEEDS. Press, Volume LI, Issue 8963, 29 November 1894, Page 6
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