BLACKBERRY AND GORSE
A VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS.
Lady Adams, a recent visitor to New Zealand, wrote from Californa to the Liverpool Post on "(Matter in the Wrong Place," expressing her remarks thus: — " Say, what's all this about the blackberry pest in New Zealand,?' my American friends are asking me. "'What indeed! 'The reason that the Americans, with their thirst for odds and ends of knowledge, are ' wantin' to know' about blackberry is that .the plague over there has become so bad that the authorities have sent some of their petet .specialists to California to get advice as to stamping ouit that solid growth of prickly creeper that is breaking the hearts of farmers. Gorse is almost as bad; once I thought it lovely. But last year, as I looked at billow.after billow of gold, covering and spoiling whole tracts of land, and when I realised what it and. blackberry meant in New Zealand. I grew to loathe its very colour, and I took a private oath that I would never touch blackberry jelly again. Still more private oaths I kept for, those namelefes sentimentalists who took out the first blackberry cane and the first gorse seeds from 'Home. May their graves be always covered with both In Australia, the woe is the prickly pear; in Honolulu, the lantana; and as for rabbits, they are awful in both New Zealand and Australia.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1787, 27 July 1926, Page 8
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