FLOWERS ON ROADSIDES
COMPLAINT BY FARMER A complaint that too much encouragement was being given to children in the planting of flowers on the roadsides was made hy a North Canterbury farmer the other day. He slated that ho sowed n paddock in grass seed last, year and that a large number of poppies had practically spoiled Hie seed for sowing purposes. The seed sown was machine-dressed ami of first onalit.v. 1 low tlm poppies came to be there was a mystery. One supposition was that the seed may have come from England. It was stated that the sowing of (lowers was all right if they wens properly looked after, but the trouble began when they were sown and then left to look after themselves. Daisies were cited as one nuisance and with these pests being planted along the country roads the tendency would lie tor the stock to carry tlieui to clean pasture land and the farmer would then have the hard task of trying to eradicate them. Poppies, however. were Hie worst pest, as once thev "blamed v hold tlicv w ere as hard to remove as many ot tin" more wellknown pests, such as thistles. The farmer sail I that he liked llowers as much as anyone, but; he did not- want to see them on the roads, as they would cause no end of troublo.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21647, 13 November 1933, Page 12
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