soursob

— SOURSOP WEED (OXALIS CERNUA). This rather pretty looking flower has become a great pest in many gardens around the city. We are asked how it is to be got rid of. Although not nearly so difficult of eradication as nut-grass, yet so many hundreds of minute bulbs gather round the parent bulb that the more the ground is stirred the greater the area infested. We know however of no destructive agent which could be applied to it in a flower garden without at the same time injuring the flowers. The surest way is dig up the bulbs on the clear ground and pick them off, and amongst the flowers to constantly pull up the leaf-stalks. […]

— Soursop. Mr. J. E. Taylor read a short paper on the “Soursop” (Oxalis). It was to be regretted that those who introduced this weed were not better acquainted with its habits.