WEEDS OF THE FARM AND GARDEN 



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 

 thistle, distributed 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. 



I^||8|f|ff 1908, the following weeds were ob- 



^g|F served by Miss Kellogg: Wild 



__. , , morning glory, hedge bindweed, 

 Fig. 21. Kmghead . , , , 



or ragweed distribut- prickly lettuce, SOW thistle, pigweed, 

 ed with grain. (C. .1. 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 mus,tard, ragweed, dog-fennel, 

 mullein, creeping Charley, five-finger, 

 squirrel-tail grass, sandbur, yellow 



King.) 



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Fig. 22. Foxtail. 

 (C. M. King.) 



foxtail, sedge, wire grass, and horse- 



