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barley are irritating to the months of grazing animals, which attempt 

 to eat them, though it is not probable that cattle avoid these plants on 

 this account. 



Gardeners often overlook some of the Weeds. — For many years 

 the writer has had the oversight of two or three acres on which were 

 grown some 2,000 kinds of plants. 

 It is the exception to pass over a 

 bed after a workman has ' dressed 

 it up ' and not find a number of 

 weeds left among the cultivated 

 plants. They are overlooked be- 

 cause of some resemblance of the 

 weed to the plant desired. I 

 enumerate a few examples found 

 one day in the month of May: A 

 few wild onions are left in the 

 asparagus ; wild seedling lilies in 

 a plat of Solomon's seal and in a 

 bed of turtle-head; June grass 

 lurks in plats of several sorts of 

 pinks, of Phlox and of many 

 other plants; narrow-leaved dock 

 is often abundant, and some of it 

 is left in a plat of dandelions, of 

 teasels, of rhubarb, of butter- 

 cups, of rue anemone; pig weeds 



Fig. 3. Leaf and Flower and Ripening 

 Fruit of the Lotus, Nelumbium, protrud- 

 ing abovethe Water, which protects these 

 Plants from many Animals. (Much re 

 duced.) 



are left to go to seed among 

 potatoes and tomatoes; the 

 brittle joints of prickly pear 

 are left to grow among other 

 species which they resemble; 

 seeds of violets in variety 

 spring up in plats of other 

 violets where they were shot 

 by the mother plants; chick- 

 weeds are rarely ever all dis- 

 covered in plats of speedwells; 

 while speedwell lurks among 

 the snap-dragons; white clover 

 is not all removed from plats 

 of alsike clover, red clover and black medick ; young plants of climbing 

 fumitory are left in beds of ginseng, Dutchman's breeches and yellow 

 puccoon; seedling wild cherries are overlooked among winter berries; 

 ground-nut escapes notice as it comes up among hog pea-nuts, vetches, or 



Fig. 4. Buds or Tips of Branches of Blad- 

 dekwort separated from the Main Stem and 

 are soon ready to sink to the Bottom of a 

 Pond and there remain during the Winter. 



