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MORE ABOUT WEEDS 



to condemn this beautiful plant as a harmful weed, but 

 such is the case. Where it is allowed to grow, it often 

 fills pastures and meadow lands to so great an extent as 

 to crowd out more useful plants, and thus becomes a 

 source of damage. 



The ox-eye daisy has sometimes been cultivated in the 

 flower garden. It is a near relative to the garden chrys- 

 anthemum. It is sel- 

 dom troublesome, ex- 

 cept in meadows or 

 pasture lands, and 

 grows best in rather 

 poor soils. It is a 

 perennial plant, and 

 grows from an un- 

 derground stem, as 

 well as from the 

 seed. 



It is hardly possi- 

 ble to destroy the 

 ox-eye daisy from 

 grass land in which 

 it has secured a hold, 

 without breaking up 

 the sod and summer- 

 fallowing the ground 

 or devoting it for a time to some hoed crop. Cutting 

 the stems before the flowers open will prevent the seed- 

 . ing, but does not destroy the plant nor stop the spreading 

 of its rootstocks. 



Snap Dragon or Toadflax (called, also: Butter and 



FIG. 69. Ox-eye daisy; i stamen, magn 

 2, pistil, magnified; 3, seeds; 4, seed, 

 nified. 



ified: 



