METHOD OF SPREADING HQ 



the clover grows the dodder grows with it, 

 and the parasite is lifted higher from the 

 ground. As the spring and summer advance, 

 the dodder flowers profusely, and as the clover 

 plants grow in size and come in contact 

 with each other, the dodder spreads from one 

 host to another. The dodder, in growing, 

 branches and re-branches repeatedly, and throws 

 out long arms, so that during a single 

 summer one or two infested clover plants will 

 help to spread the dodder over a large area. 

 The parasite cannot live on the remains of 

 the plants it has destroyed, so, in the process 

 of growth, it leaves the central clover plant 

 for other plants at the circumference of a 

 dead circle of clover, which may be many 

 feet, or even yards, in diameter. 



The suckers, already mentioned as being 

 useful to the dodder in enabling it to attach 

 itself to the clover, are pushed into the fine 

 longitudinal furrows (which are always present 

 on clover stems) until they reach the internal 

 cellular structure of the clover. Each sucker 

 being provided with a woody skeleton, it acts 



