FENNEL ON OUR HILLSIDES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1064, 1 March 1911, Page 4

FENNEL ON OUR HILLSIDES.

HOW TO DEAL WITH IT. A plant popularly known as fennel is s orapidly spreading nnd obtaining a hold on many pieces of land in and about tho city that its growth scorns likely soon to assume tho dimensions of a "pest." The fact.was emphasised by Mr. Glen (superintendent of reserve?) in'conversation on a driyo out to Wainui yesterday. Fennel, 31 r. Glen remarked, is not classified as a noxious weed, but ■ its characteristics fully entitle it to hostile attention. Havin.i nneo obtained a hold on land (and this it does very rapidly) it is exceedingly diilicnlt to cslivpatu. Luxuriant patches nf fennel may be wen at many points of the hillside overlooking the Hutt Road, and it if al-o much in evidence on somo vacant sections at Tliorndon. The simplest nay to deal with it is to k?ep it const ant ly cut clown to ground level, and prevent it from seeding. Fennel is an importation from Kittfand, where its juioo is sometimes used in tho manufacture of a fish sauce greatly iwl-is)io-l by epicures. lVsibly tin's sin/rlo useful quality explains tl:o appearance , in New Zealand of a plant nr which tho cimntry would bo very well rid.