Heavy Seeding.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1939, Page 4

Heavy Seeding.

Reports from parts of the back country indicate that the year has been one of phenomenally heavy seeding. Snow grass, celmisia, tussock, and associated plant life in the Cameron valley, a tributary of the Rakaia draining the Arrowsmith glaciers, are laden with seeds and promise to propagate well to provide a good sole of grass over country always liable to erode in heavy floods and severe storms. A recent visit paid by a climbing party to the Hawdon valley, a tributary of the Waimakariri, showed that the beech forest was sowing itself rapidly on the river flats. Many small seedlings about two feet in height were found and the blooms of rata were seen high up near the upper limit of the bush. In another branch, where the Government deer cullers have not worked, several bands of deer were seen, but few beech seedlings. At the head of this branch, where the dividing ridge, separates the Hawdon from the Poulter rivers, a deeitrack that might have been a benched path was followed for about a quarter of a mile over screes and wide beds of alpine turf covered with mountain daisies in full bloom.

A barman has invented a cocktail which he claims will act as a ’flu preventive. We understand that there has been some very determined gargling.