THE WEEDS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



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the first place), that it is to be hoped that officers in charge of roads will, 

 as a national duty, see to the extermination of the most injurious weeds. 

 The eradication of the worst weeds would, in most instances, hardly increase 

 the work of a man to a perceptible degree, and, with vigilance, the work to 

 be done would rapidly diminish. 



Where found. The Star Thistle is a native of the countries in Europe, 

 Asia, and Africa surrounding the Mediterranean, and also Great Britain 

 and other countries of middle and northern Europe. Its range is pretty 

 well that of Kentrophyllam (or Carthamus). Now, however, it is to be 

 found in probably every country in the world except the coldest. 



The following paragraph, taken from my original article in the Agricul- 

 tural Gazette for 1894, may be instructively compared by all landowners 

 with the lists of municipal and shire councils (supplied by the Local Govern- 

 ment Department) of the New South Wales areas in which it has been 

 proclaimed up to 1919. If it continues to spread at the present rate, in a 

 few years it will be proclaimed for the whole State : 



There are a number of plants in the vicinity of the cattle and sheep sale- 

 .yyrds at Homebush. At first I knew of only one, which I used to visit regularly 

 for specimens, but since then I have found several in Homebush and Fleming- 

 ton. It was probably brought to these localities by sheep, the seeds being stuck 

 iu their wool. Only a month ago Mr. Ross, of Bathurst, writes that he has 

 noticed it there for the first time. It has been sent recently to the Department 

 from Wagga Wagga, Grenfell, and Gunnedah. I have seen it in other parts of 

 the colony, and have received it from additional localities. Generally, I have 

 noticed it in small patches at very wide intervals. It is a most insidious foe, 

 .and landowners are recommended to make themselves acquainted with it, and 

 to keep their land clear of it. 



The list of. shires and municipalities in which this pest has been pro- 

 claimed is already formidable, as may be seen from the following, furnished 

 by the Local Government Department, 1919 : 



Abercrombie 



Barraba 



-tferrigan 



Bibbenluke 



Bland 



(Janobolas 



Cai rathool 



Cobbora 



Cockburn 



Coolamon 



Coreen 



Crook well 



Culcairn 



Tenterfield 



Terania 



Timbrebongie 



Tumbarumba 



Tweed 



Wakool 



Wallarobba 



Waradgery 



Waugoola 



Wingadee 



Wollondilly 



Yarrowlumla. 



MUNICIPALITIES. 



Balmain 



Bathurst 



Botany 



Braidwood 



Burrowa 



Burwood 



Carccar 



Concord 



Coonambl 



Cootamundra 



Coraki 



Co row a 



Cowra 



Dubbo 



Goulburn 



Hay 



Junee 



Lismore 



Maitland, West 



Manilla 



Molong 



Mullnmbimby 



Murrumburrah 



Murwillumbah 



Orange 



Queacbeyan 



Quirindi 



Richmond 



Temora 



Wagga Wagga 



Windsor 



Wyalong 



Yass 



Young. 



