BLACKBERRY AND GORSE.

Thames Star, Volume LX, Issue 16855, 4 August 1926, Page 5

BLACKBERRY AND GORSE.

| A VISITOR’S IMPRESSIONS. | ■ . ■ ’; | Lady Adams, a recent visitor to New Zealand, wrote from California to the i liverpoo! Post on “Matter in the Vrong Place,” expressing her remarks hus:— “Say, what’s all this about the ilackberry pest in New Zealand?” my American friends are asking me. “What indeed! The reason that the Americans, with their thirst for odds ind ends of knowledge, are ‘wantin’ to :now’ about blackberry is that the ilague over there has become so had hat the authorities have sent some if their pest specialists to California ;o get advice as to stamping out that iolid growth of prickly creeper that is leaking the hearts of farmers. Gorse s almost as bad; once I thought it ovely. But last rear, as I looked at ullow after billow of gold, covering tiid spoiling whole tracts of land, and yhen I realised, what it. and blackberry jaeant in New Zealand, I grew to loathe its ‘very colour, and I took a private lath that I would never touch blackberry jelly again. Still more private lath's 1 kept for those nameless sentilentalists who took out the first blackberry cane and the first gorse seeds [tom Home. May their graves he always covered with both pests.” In Australia, the woe is the prickly >oar; in Honolulu, the lantana; and Is for rabbits, they are awful in both slew Zealand and Australia.