Re: The Sinclair Badge: Whin

["Jenny-Louise Coster" <jennycoster@hotmail.com>]

I recently spent a week on the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand 
and there is gorse everywhere making the land useless. The horrible thing 
with gorse is it is really difficult to clear it out of paddocks.
Jenny


>From: "Judith Harper" <j.harper@internet.co.nz>
>Reply-To: sinclair@mids.org
>To: <sinclair@mids.org>
>Subject: Re: The Sinclair Badge: Whin
>Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 09:12:29 +1300
>
>I'm not surprised to hear from Gary that Gorse is  prohibited for import
>into the USA.  Some misguided early immigrant brought some gorse to New
>Zealand in early colonial times and it has become a major, major pest
>problem  -  although somewhat admired by American and Japanese tourists  in
>their blissful ignorance ('Oh, what lovely yellow flowers all over the
>hillsides').  Any country without it is well advised to work hard to keep 
>it
>that way!
>Regards,
>Judith Harper
>New Zealand
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <Tentcavalier2@aol.com>
>To: <sinclair@mids.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, 08 February, 2000 6:50 AM
>Subject: Re: The Sinclair Badge: Whin
>
>
> > In a message dated 02/06/00 7:11:53 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>INSLaird@cs.com
> > writes:
> >
> > << Whin is Scots for Gorse or Furze (Ulex
> >  Europaeus).  It is a spiky shrub which has a yellow flower. >>
> >
> > It should also be noted that the plant is listed on the forbidden list 
>for
> > import to the USA.
> > GaryD
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