WEEDS ARE HARMFUL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 6 (Supplement)

WEEDS ARE HARMFUL.

Weeds absorb the moisture, and the food that should feed plants, snot out the beneficial action of light and air, feed and 'shelter harmful insects, and in the case- of climbing weeds strangle the plants on which they climb. During Spring and early summer they are particularly harmful because there are irany small seedlings which are easily smothered or destroyed. During other parts of the year they are harmful because they are producing seed which will Ecrminate in- the spring and therefore make work. Use the hoe "continuously, especially during dry -weather, but under no conditions allow weeks to seed.

by experience that cutting the flowers with a long stem i= a disadvantage and where the iblooms are left and only the head , .pulled off to prevent' seeding the -bulbs -arc much better.- Some varieties of daffodils do much betteij when grown in tho shade. Jfo doiibt one reason is that the bulbs require a much longer period of growth to per-; feet the flowers. These latter includemost of'the true poeticus or pheasant eye narcissi, "which, are almost always growing, there being a very short period: between •wien ' the' 'foliage ceases to' f miction and the bulbs commence to; send out new roots: - Where possible the best method-is to grow the narcissiand daffodils in a part of the garden where the foliage van riinnain. imtil withered without being ail eyesore. :■ ■