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crops may be taken in succession with the object of 

 reducing it. The weed occurs most freely in damp 



FlG. 8. Creeping Buttercup (Ranunculus repens L.), x \. 



land, and draining is found to reduce it. In garden 

 cultivation deep trenching will destroy the growing 

 plants, but unless this work be done thoroughly it will 



