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Identification. 



WEEDS— (Continued.) 



Duration. Place of Growth. 



Method of Control 

 or Destruction. 



Erect branching, with Biennial 



large roots 



Running or climbing Perennial 



vine 



Erect, hairy Biennial 



Everywhere 



Grain field and 

 gardens 



Fields and waste 

 place, sand and 

 gravelly soil 



Erect, branching 



Perennial Everywhere 



Creeping, from a joint- Pereimial 



ed root stock 



A coarse grass Annual 



Erect, branching, flow- Annual . 

 ers purple 



Erect, branching,hairy, Bieimial 

 flowers white or pink 



Erect, branching, flow- Perennial 

 ers white 



Fields and gard- 

 ens 



Fields and waste 

 places 



Grain fields 



Grain fields and 

 waste places 



Everywhere 



Leaves, with strongly Perennial Everywhere 

 curled margins; flower, 

 stem erect from a spind- 

 led shaped yellow root 



Parasitic, climbing over Aimual Mostly in fields 



other plants, and feed- and gardens 



ing on their sap 



Erect, branching, flow- Annual 



ers small yellow 



An erect grass Annual 



Erect, coarse herb Perennial 



Cultivated fields 

 Everywhere 



Fields and mea- 

 dows 



Cut off below the crown, and 

 if in seed, bum the tops. 

 Difficiilt to eradicate, con- 

 stant cutting below the sur- 

 face. 



Thorough cultivation is al- 

 ways sufficient. In fence- 

 comers, etc., cut below the 

 crown. 



Frequent cultivation, cutting 

 just when the blossom buds 

 are on. Pasture sheep on 

 them. 



Constant cultivation is about 

 the only effective remedy. 

 Hand pulling in grain, and 

 avoid fall sown crops. Some- 

 times taken for degenerated 

 wheat. 



Sow. clean seed. Hand pull- 

 ing in grain. 



Sow clean seed. Hand pul- 

 ling in grain. Cultivate 

 stubble lands two or three 

 times in the fall. 

 Likely to become trouble- 

 some. Frequent cultivation 

 of infested fields and hand- 

 pulling. 



Cut off below the crown 

 with hoe or cultivator. 



Sow clean grains and seed. 



Hand-pull it before it ripens 



seed. Likely to become very 



injurious. 



Fall cultivation of stubble 



fields. Hand-pulling in grain. 



Frequent fall ciUtivation. 



Plant hoe crops on infested 



land. 



Frequent fall cultivation in 



tillable lands. On meadows, 



broadcast one ton and a 



quarter of salt to the acre, 



A bad weed in Quebec. 



