Codlin Moth Plant.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2080, 13 June 1887, Page 2

Codlin Moth Plant.

The oodliu moth pleat, the flower# of which act as a trap to moth* o< all description*, destroying them hy thousands, has been successfully grc'-j by a gentleman in Wanganui. As l-u matter ts of general interact, especially to orchardiste, the following particular* ot its growth received from the grower of the plant, in response to an application lor seed*, will he acceptable to our readers Alter regretting that at present he has no seeds rtpe for distribution, the writer says he is expecting more seed rtom the Cape, where the plant is indigenous, and is himself trying tu grow some from cuttings The plant is easily railed. In hi* case, the ground wa* dug alongside of a stake fence, and the seed was sown lightly. Netting should be planted along wtth it, aa -hade seems to kill it. Judging from appear* iKOes, a chain length of this creeper will yield 100 pods of seed, ana a pod of teed nil sow about half a chain in length, ao that race a few seeds ate obtained, the plants may be rapidly propagated in any district, lu the hedges of creepers thus grown by this gentleman last summer, thousands ot moths of different varieties were captured daily, so that, be says, p..* anting that it fur's to uitraot the codlin m -th, it is more than pro* babla that it will kill many others that are destructive to plauta ,n <>ni g>. us. Ur Kile, t-hief Commietnouer of the , ,ests Department, Wellington, ua». it mud, applted for seed for the purpose of growing it next year, sc as to be able to distribute the seed through* out the colony.