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not destroyed until the second year, they should be cut off before seeds 

 are produced. 



This weed is used extensively in medicine. Large quantities of the roots 

 and seeds arc gathered and used as a cure for V)lood and skin diseases. 



WILD CARROT 



It is said that the wild carrot is the parent of the garden carrot. If 



a person pulls up one of these plants and 

 smells it, he will understand why. 



The gardener grows carrot seeds by 

 setting out in the spring carrots that 

 were grown the previous year. After pro- 

 ducing seeds the plant dies. This is also 

 the habit of the \vild carrots. They do 

 not produce seed the first year. Conse- 

 quently if they are cut off near the 

 ground two or three times during the 

 second year, their life history is finished. 

 Wild carrots do not spread from the 

 roots like the thistle, but they produce 

 a great number of seeds. These seeds 

 have been known to live in the ground 

 several years before growing. Therefore 

 wild caiTots must be repeatedly pulled or 

 cut oft" in order to keep the field free from 

 them. They are not troublesome in plowed 

 land, but are common in old meadows. 



WHITE DAISY 



The white daisy is a perennial; there- 

 fore it lives more than two years. The 

 roots are rather shallow and branching. 

 The plant propagates itself to a limited 

 extent by means of iinderground stems. 

 The seeds of daisies are produced in flat- 

 topped heads, which closely resemble the 

 heads of sunflowers. There is a large 

 Wild carrot number of seeds in each head. White 



daisies are common in pastures and meadows in New York State, and 

 especially in those that have not been recently plowed. During the 

 last weeks of June and the first weeks of July, many fields are white with 

 daisies. They are cut with the grass at haymaking time, and cured 



