"Paspatum Dilatatum"

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43312, 11 April 1908, Page 1

"Paspatum Dilatatum"

;/ '" ; ; , -A''WEED;;.. / ;; ... ; j ufr. '•-.•« .-.'1./V. ;•> l * One hears so much in praise of imported South American grass as s , valuable fodder, .(writes J \ H. Maiden) that it wiir surprise weed. A few years . ago, vwhen • • ikass was rare .in /New South Wales, tussock of paspalum -was placed in , thCgrass bed at tljß'Botanic. Garden for public information-.’.During ; the fast/-, two./ ox.:, three ..years ; it > has v 1 displayed a great tendency to spread, r been disseminated by seed* -It his'injured spnid of - .... *he ; Jawns . in , thelower garden and ?,#Hiiow, ; !;will' have ,to - be: eradicated *'^ ! ?altogetber. Owing to- the Tawns > 'cut, ■the'pispaluni is taking on a 'prostrate habit, and’ it -Reforms large rpsettes, which f destroy R .. : .'M/touch.and even- buffalo/• grassy'The ' moral'of this is, keep it* carefully out bflawns: 1 :aVV ' 1 ' iT >’ y " j l,l