He was sent out with a small hand hatchet to gather a little fern and gorse to put under the stacks.
The eradication of bracken, whins or gorse growing on a pastoral farm at the commencement of a tenancy.
First, we refer to pasture land on which the vegetation is solely or mainly bracken, gorse, heather rushes and sedge.
We find vast areas of land covered not by cattle, sheep or grouse moors but by nothing but scree, bracken or gorse.
I know of a case of a common infested with gorse and bracken where there is a proposal to start a public golf course.
I do not think that there is very much beauty in a lot of gorse and broken fences.
There is an area of some 80 acres which has been overgrown with gorse and bracken ever since the days of the agricultural depression.
But it will go back to what it was before—gorse, fern and brambles—and it is that which makes this problem so urgent.
