“Ploughing helps destroy perennials, as the roots are exposed to direct sunlight and so destroyed.  Another method of treatment is that of cutting off the top down to the root and putting salt on the freshly cut root tap.  Then again these roots may be starved out by never allowing the top or leafy part to form.  You will remember that it is the leaf which makes the food.  And if there is no food then there will be none to store away in the root for new root formation.  Some farmers smother roots.  This is done by planting such crops as hemp, clover or cowpeas.  These crops choke out the weeds.  They cover the ground very completely, and so the weeds have less of a chance.

“I give the following table of a few very common weeds in order that you may know just how to handle them.

“I must speak especially about snapdragon or butter and eggs.  It came to our country as a garden flower.  It has spread and spread, partly by its seeds and partly by its root stalks, which are creeping ones, and now it is a perennial weed.  For since it has become a nuisance it must be classed as a weed.  As it spreads along it tends to force out other plants.

“This weed, like the wild carrot, is really very lovely.  Could such weeds be properly held down in small garden areas they would be very ornamental.  I saw a little flower garden once, quite beautiful, with two small clumps, one of wild mustard and one of field daisy, among the other flowers.

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COMMON NAME               CLASS       SEED TIME     COLOUR OF
FLOWER
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Burdock                 Biennial      Aug.-Oct.      Purple

Bur-marigold or Annual July-Nov.  Yellow
beggar ticks

Canada thistle Perennial " " "

Chickweed Annual Mar.-July White

    Cocklebur " July-Oct.  Green

    Dandelion Perennial May-Oct.  Yellow

    English bindweed or " Aug.-Oct.  White
      morning glory

    Moth Mullein Biennial July-Nov.  Yellow

    Narrow-leaved Annual July-Oct.  Blue
      stickseed or
      beggar tick

    Ox-eye daisy or Perennial Aug.-Oct.  White
      white daisy

    Pigweed Annual Aug.-Nov.  Green

    Prickly lettuce, " July-Nov.  Yellow
      milkweed

    Purslane, pursley " June-Dec. "

    Rib-grass, plantain Biennial July-Nov.  White

    Ragweed, Roman wormwood Annual Aug.-Nov.  Yellow

    Russian thistle " " " Purplish