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garden as I walked through the other morning. How manypf them grow 

 about your home and what do you call each of them? Run to the garden 

 and see how many you can find. Here are a few hints to help you in 

 naming them. Numbers i and 2 are named from their resemblance to 

 parts of certain animals. The canary is very fond of the seeds of No. 3. 

 No. 4 is the " Hobo "of the crowd. No. 5 must have been used by Good 

 Queen Isabel in making her royal robes. No. 6 is a near cousin to the 

 plant which gives material for your winter morning pancakes. It is the 

 only climber among these weeds. No. 7 is a cousin of the radish. It is 

 so common that I fear you have never stopped to look at it. No. 8 has a 

 large red root and very tiny black seeds. I used to make little baskets of 

 9, No. 10 is the queerest of all. Some people call it the " bird's nest 

 weed." Can you guess why? 



Fig. 3 illustrates the seeds from nine of these weeds. Find out which 

 of the seeds belong to the weeds shown in Fig. 2. Numbers 5 and 6 are 





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Fig. 3. — Seeds front nine of the weeds. 



black and shiny, almost alike, but you will notice that those at 5 are the 

 smaller. 



After you have found out the names of these common weeds and 

 have learned to know their seeds you will like to find out some other 

 things about them, especially if you have to help keep them out of die 

 garden and yard. Some of them live only through the summer, produc- 

 ing their seed and then dying, root and all. Others die down to the ground 

 when the frost comes l)ut their roots live all winter and send up new 

 sprouts in the spring. You see you will have to fight each one in a 

 slightly different way. for each has peculiar habits of its own. You will 

 want to find out which ones produce their seeds the first year and which 

 must grow for two seasons before they have seeds. Then. too. there 

 is the question of how the seeds get into the garden. Some have hooks 

 and have come with you from the woods or fields. How do others travel ? 



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