WEEDS OF THE FARM AND GARDEN 



thistle, distributed 



with grain. 

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cultivated as an ornamental plant, is; becoming trouble- 

 some in many places. Butter-and-eggs was not only 

 introduced as an ornamental plant and cultivated, but 

 since has spread because sent out with horticultural 

 plants. The bouncing bet, used as an ornamental plant, 

 has become troublesome in north- 

 western Iowa along the roadsides 

 and in fields;. Other plants, as horse- 

 radish and ground-ivy, have become 

 weeds in the same way. 



Railways. Some railways are 

 Fig. 20. Russian using various kinds of screenings to 

 sow along their right of way to cover 

 the steep fills. A variety of weeds 

 may be found here. Other weeds 

 are scattered from passing cars. Rus- 

 sian thistle, buckhorn, ox-eye daisy, 

 thistle, and other varieties of weeds 

 may be found along the right-of-way. 

 On a patch of ground of not more 

 than two square rods in extent in a 

 town in Central Iowa, in August 



r^llsli llF 1908, the following weeds were ob- 



^|g|r served by Miss Kellogg: Wild 



, morning glory, hedge bindweed, 

 Fig. 21. Kinghead 



r ragweed distribut- prickly lettuce, sow thistle, pigweed, 

 ed with grain. (C. M. lamb's quarter, purslane, velvet weed, 

 mallow, chickweed, shepherd's purse, 

 sweet clover, burdock, curled dock, 

 sheep sorrel, horseweed, pepper 

 grass, wild-radish, black bindweed, 

 water pepper, smartweed, milkweed, 

 black mustard, ragweed, dog-fennel, 

 mullein, creeping Charley, five-finger, 

 squirrel-tail grass, sandbur, yellow 

 foxtail, sedge, wire grass, and horse- 



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Fig. 22. 

 (C. M. King.) 



