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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4665, 26 October 1876, Page 3

The growth ,of thistles and the method of exterminating them, have been topics often discussed by Befctlers. The following is a piece of information on the subject which, if proved to be founded on faot, will help to settle the difficulty. The Berlin correspondent of Land and Water writes :—Who ever knew of two plants being so inimical to one another as to till the other by a mere touch ? This, however, seems to be the case when rape grows near the thistle. If a field is infested with thistles, give it a turn of rape seed, and this plant will altogether starve, suffocate, and chill the .thistle out ..of existence.. A trial was made with different varieties, of rape, seed in square plots, when it was forind that the ' whole grotirid was full of -thistleii, and nobody believed the rape was having a fair run. But it had, and as the rape grew the thistles .vanished, faded, turned grey, and dried up as soon as the rape leaves began to tojich;them»«:iPther, trials were then made in flower-pots and garden beds, and the thistle always had to'give-in, - and was altogether annihilated, whether . old. ,and fully deyeloped, or young and tender.