FURZE, GORSE, WHINS.
When patches of gorse bushes have been burnt, the roots do not always die in the ground but frequently break out from the collar, forming what botanists call adventitious buds. We mention this to show that this truly native shrub is prepared to hold itß own against fearful odds. The seeds ripen in the autumn of the same year in which the flowers appear, but the pods do not open until tho following year, when they do so with a crack, and scatter the seeds to some distance, thereby sowing the future whins. The early blossoms of the furze are of .the highest • value • to the bee-keeper, just as the heather •is to the supply of honey ater on. — Gardeners' Clironicle.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1363, 12 January 1878, Page 18
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124FURZE, GORSE, WHINS. Otago Witness, Issue 1363, 12 January 1878, Page 18
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