THE FOX-CLOVERS AS A WEED.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 74, 20 December 1907, Page 4

THE FOX-CLOVERS AS A WEED.

A weed that is causing the Stock Department some anxiety in Marlborough (says the " Marlborough Express ") is tho fox-glove. In tho Wangamoa tlior§'ai'(3 to be scon acres of it, and it is spreading rapidly. 'It is said, too, that sheep will not touch, tho plant unless ver.y hungry, and it is known to bo y f)o!6on6its : "'ifr nature. In tlio Pelorus Sound, too, tho fotf-glovo Jias got a strong hold 011 0110 sectionT ; Horo it is white; at tho Wangamoa jpink. Tho history of the latter is that; somo years ago a box of garden seeds was sent out from tho Old Country by tho relatives of tho owners of the run," ,anjlf ( tjhe seiitl boing-teu-times tho ijuantity rcquirwlTiy tl?o recipient or the neighbours for fioygr-gnraeli purposes, somo of tho varieties wi?r6 'niixcd|;'with tho grass seed, with tli'o beautifying tho hill'slopes .a'little. Tlic> result i?iin bo seen to-day by. any t-ravel-aud Nelson—tho "tall 'fjiiik "fox-glqvo ,waves its head " to the tune 9f ten or twenty acres, ; .-It is comforting to neai 1 ,"' liowevfer, that "the" fox-glove, has been ,Unowij„in Tilranaki and elsewhere to die .out : 'Of ife own accord, but only after it has had: its fling.