15 examples of charlock in sentences

Mr. Wallace laments (and rightly) the absence in the tropic forests of such grand masses of colour as are supplied by a heather moor, a furze or broom-croft, a field of yellow charlock, blue bugloss, or scarlet poppy.

Calm, clean spaces emerging, the bright, sharp-cut pattern of the fields; squares and fans and pointed triangles, close fitted; emerald green of the turnips; yellow of the charlock lifted high and clear; red brown and pink and purple of ploughed land and fallows; red gold of the wheat and white green of the barley; shimmering in a wash of thin air.

On the right the bright canary coloured charlock brimmed the field.

There's nothing on earth that gets you like the smell of charlock.

And he had kept on telling Jerrold what crops were to be sown after the wheat, swedes to come first, and vetch after the swedes, to crowd out the charlock.

"You'll have to keep the charlock down, Jerrold, or it'll kill the crops.

" "How different?" "Well, in some of those fields you'll have to fight the charlock all the time.

" Through the open window, from the fields of charlock warm in the risen sun, the faint, smooth scent came to them.

All summer the hard fight against the charlock, year after year the same.

Beneath your feet lie many hundred thousand acres of green pastures, varied in colour during summer and autumn by golden wheatfields bright with yellow charlock and crimson poppies.

Though the glory of the lilac has passed away, the buttercup still gilds the landscape; barley fields are bright with yellow charlock, and the soft, subdued glow of sainfoin gives colour to the breezy uplands as of acres of pink carnations.

Yellow charlock, beautiful to look upon, but hated by the farmers, takes possession of the wheat "grounds" in May, and holds the fields against all comers throughout the summer.

The charlock brightens the landscape with its mass of colour among the turnips until the end of November, if the season be fairly mild.

"Others again provide material for three purposes, food, honey and wax, such as the almond and the charlock.

Charlock - - - Sinapis arvensis.

15 examples of  charlock  in sentences