Re: The Sinclair Badge: Whin

[Niven Sinclair <niven@niven.co.uk>]

At 14:47 07/02/00 -0800, you wrote:
>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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>> >In Scotland, we burned one seventh of the heather and gorse every year 
>> on our
        hill farm.  This ensured young shoots for the grouse.  It also 
provides "cover" for
        wild life areas where trees are scarce.  Bracken was the real 
curse. Inedible and
        pervasive.

        Niven Sinclair


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