T THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE Г Е, 
- rsen a n d on the S pom 
ihe climate not being suitable, and consequently : they occupy several square yards to itself if it; grows well, yov can 
havı — of Thistles. For their extermination laws зе йау охра ende. "In grow, D ME yon e rri that nds. » м | 
hich аге rigidly enforced. In many parts of | must be growing wee { ; as the faculty of в and | 
dir iland ii found pos ge grow e "ap on otio of — е book I wi ide y ses. Ihave'entered |a centre, like the e. xd TEET | 
the ordin ment of the This tely into fs Аба I took the trouble of taking | these strikes down a root, a cm SOSTTY, When esh ef 
Th th s of bem kinds of Clo (and а deal of trouble | This goes on until the planta t€ d gut ощ another фын 
Let us look again at another case. ere is the | fe yos and ascertained by counting t umber of seeds | having perhaps 60 of Thess e shoots or sei or nine feet ! 
weed known as the сонро which we treat in Ње | P € contained, and the results arrived at were some- | parent. If this plant i 8 then cut up 28 from the | 
th TN | veh arkable. Multiplying these ts into bushels gave | other implement, each of he piec vh With the | 
ваше way as the ut B^ гон ЖУМАН figures. Here aresix samples of Red Clover. | besides this, it has the faculty of hne ош shoots; aus 
іпеге; y i. em e way asthe Thistle by sending 4) ut In а bushel of one kind I found 1,085,445 weed seeds; in | single year if allowed to w. Take amu 1500 мем ы, 
lateral bu в, whieh on being separated fro another 2,524160. Without troubling you by going through | plant, the Pop А le average plant ot other commen 
parent stem, [t jm ee up, will grow into a perfect Pant the whole of this table, I may state that а sample of White | Poppy I have ascertained will produce as the common d 
Th us we may see whole fie e ege e with Coltsfoot, hav: uteh Clover contained the highest number E i. - Lor. need not therefore won find Cue да 50,00 ai. 
spread from centres іп this way. Let us look a little moro Т have observed in any s mple, and this, too iece of land red with Poppies, without supposine H ånd thena 
osely at the natural cael ы the Coltsfoot, and then р |seedsman labelled as genuine. In а bushel ы "inis T I оша, no|naturally produced them. Tt use one that the ыл 
shall вее how.serious are the injuries caused by it. Int nj less than 7,680,000! Here, then, is the саве of this White | have been allowed to scatter their еей upon the I d pes 
ar part of the year it has v: € пано апа | Dutch Olover. With every square prd AMA MÀ s M his е some other plants. The Charlock we ha land. Dea 
no leaves, and the farmer therefor them | s eed would be sown 174 weeds, which would of course be | (Sinapis arvensis) produces about 4000 seeds to еле Рх a 
amongst ун corn thinks very "it ? iem, й quite enough to stock any land for some years to come with | Black Mustard, 8000, the Mouse-e т Chickweed 18, plant : м 
m mn by, n the usual period for Wheat weeds, however careful you may have been in weedi thistle 19,000, and another kind no less than 25,00). tone 
TESE busily engaged in chopping them. | pr vious years. Let us take Rye-grass, a more ertile source | taken from a list I published in the 4, These am 
The b Ан < А.р by this 2 — же: eir — тымы the of dirt than almost anything else. ave examined various ai bservations upon the reprodueti: Gazette, ae 
Lo T k- undergrou nd pr же fer вераю to ss ri er E samples of ъ ля Died ou n, sample = weis in "the ра When І Һе investigating this subject dh e и 
ection. Every one o grass, for example, ound 261,190 woe or à umber of seeds, but 
by the де ga ants 150 new “plants, each. seed having a i parachute | pean These seeds were very much like e-gras individual plant to produce enough seeds yes е | 
by which it flies about, and is planted somewher other. h-grass very often; and soie very — odios "ot when I did find this out, it opened up a wide field for ш 
So that in the usual farming дейи, Shout мее it, | Grass. a far as I have seen, with regard to ass, thereis | tion. It explained how sometimes in an in ANM 
the pos Es aken pe ut. dg me Rem блек. eph zay not a more fertile cea sed ,Couch-grass than "ротой е thousands Ы we ig: а d beri D only a дэ] | 
nicely and delicately planted. e sure that the m A Pt. In a bushel of this see quite|' was seen. Som nts i enorm ingle { 
you reflect оп this р, the plainer vii Din ad ыле А th of | enough Couch seed tostock your land, if it has been cleaned ever | develope two or three lots of seed ia in a yen er eec] | 
h at I am stating. t had thes rs been eut down | во much pens. Then, in, there is the common im- | and Groundsel (Senecio тарна. mother, By what "4 ( 
Defore the. seeds Өрө, you "m. “havo. тезү íhe|ported Italian Rye-grass. The example I have here із опе of|said you will very clearly + you may | 
possibility of the seeds it afterwards contained from being the dirtiest I have ever found, for it contains 450,560 d | '*eultivate" weeds; and pe that die ny | 
planted. seeds to the bushel. The weeds consist, among other plants, | to avoid growing ыла ls to see how esi " bad ] 
Tt is the Same with regard to Couch, which is perhaps |of the Creeping Crowfoot, one plant of which will occupy | how they are produced in such enormous fua | 
^ cultivated” toa greater extent on the Cotswolds than it is several feet if it grows well, which it is вов sure to do, and | single plant. 
l and under dat кай иге eie А Ыр oF gum оналар кое ЭЙ grow, Hem mit та vory aort 
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the Dong cannot get at. These are the places wh eeds | feedin; erties what and erfoet] pom amongst: 
g proper ; and р y ong i£ 
and flower Dottor than anywhere else, and the seeds | Rye-grass, or, if not useless, itis a Grass the seed of which it 
pers ^ не сафа Ње ndi 3 y roots d Hf pisce is too bad to call upon the à =i pay or з it сс ioris s эө аш Farmers? = Johnson 4 
er w run fro. ep cultiv: upo т years a ri of your fields, | 
where they are cut up into Wire Dits де the plough, an енн? "There Avda am sure, be a more ferti'e sou f weed euti-| Shaw's Farmers Almanac—Morton’s Now Farmeri | 
sively propaga icked out of land w n than is offered i co s. examinations еі. 
thereis a single Dat or po in 1; bul. itis exceedingly dificult of Flax seeds ш Show that weeds v. nerall: 
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to piek up ail these -small pieces, and they remain to become | when you sow Flax. I got dris. samples of the seed as e understand that the first, of theso has a а теу 
T n from Ak fresh plants are sent out to choke the | ordin; narilysold. Ifused forc its value 
growing cro much, or more, t sown. In one 
ES AVithr regard to our second point—the propagation Dingen, in 100 parts I got 40 parts of Flax seed, 44 parts 
8 by manure heaps—it is a very important і к par x, 90 
muito yx farmers grow зни from the poen being weeds and four dirt. In some Black Sea Linseed 80 parts seeds, 
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1 i терт. our breeds of sheep and ойе are 
Phe manure heg мее ET that those show yoa (at, though г | able, unless, indeed, it be thoso of tho 
f Some two or three years ago I was on a farm upon which the you iy d heaply, you may get some kinds very dirty, yet that | COW = the West t Highland с nd the former is | 
farmer һай commenced the growth apt In that 8. it is possible to get € pure Flax seed in the market. ]f|called a Short-horn ! Ku discussion on cattle condi- 
вееӣ— common Cha апу of these dirty seeds is used, you реб ав а resulta large | ments before the English Agricultural Bote ingin 
(Sinapis m ма iat gear with — wen seed and н 2-0 of weeds оп your farm s which you never before in nd ever or они iy ш taken оп the om | 
am and neque his is cultivated or saw will be obtained from those bad foreign Flax d rA m ant | 
TAA more сызу ban t the other. s saw that there. could not Weeds are thus taken to various parts of the world in | hand of proving t condiments а | 
-. Xd market for this Flax, from the prevalence ыз the essly e сое p Our emigrants in India and North the other of RONIE. [1 м Mr, уай 
аск Mustard. The seed was threshed out, the Charlock seed ouragrarian dE with them, At in пой ар cas oid hM 
be separated, but it was mot burnt or destroyed as it should | oo dise in the чое of Saratoga Springs I counted x de i — fom | 
ve been, and some of the ref сей got into the fold yard, | some 30 species of e growing as rampantly as in England, n's а я | 
supposed аз іхей up inthe manure heap. It is eme they aving been the farm and there cultivated in the t deal of useful agricultural І | 
Le лче thatif weeds are put into a manure heap, the | ва "A nner; in fact i а great part of our ordi s have|is given in it ina very readable way, pleasantly inter | 
сав у, and во most plants will, but there із a vital| peen -brou from Ser partita I am constantly Чи йш ssip and well selected snatches _ 
mlale n пра at ml ыт gleo ACC е navig ен Pania Somo of them opr ning | 
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than any other portion of the гаа ые 57 Pie L^ ax ue new F plants 1 havo аен raw asin 
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foreign seeds, and they ought to be an evidence to us of E 
carried spread over the land, M a е of the previ 
quite covered with this Charlock, while. the 4-4 in n 
tions of the land were clear, But now what is а very | seed or Ch 
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w 1 Ay st find а quan: plant -3 2 Cockle has e feeding properties whatever, 
Wi hire, and counted n it no less than 20 different species of | iat ri "d om fibus mixed уон are paying not S QUI 
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fom дю е of bulls up 
had p iays I "he manure heap from which those Turnips 
Stoki mane anured was an old опе, and on eve d of it ей a mixture 2 eei arts of Sainfoin and Burnet, and from 
bue лор growing. This plan -— yd this you will see the ансау which some persons would have 
т on the.top of a manure heap than elsewhere : ifferen i 
M oa pag actually develope from 60,000 to 70, ,000 sooda... Ен 
s нр of theheapin autumn, woro re regularly scattered 
the field. without cai 
e parl esci -over our fields. EM we — — 
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: pue d n of cow! е 
of 200 kar es Thes pof is eming i mimbon a 
M e increased number to hara 
n re eme eagerness of ls of foe 
their куб айне inít. And as, upon фет 
and value .depend тё 
works whos s audam su. they receiv 
4 Presented vory dieran popularity d y podia tc 1P xb a lug nd | 
3 us now consider th. the same "colour, they were liable t to pass unnoticed. The evil odd e esent ‘woll exeonted 
i ad фы mael € er T bie Pink tho sowing of! sy, thus introd ;and crops ds echter with n dri 
investigating thiis mapter its value was scarcely under- lithographs of well selected sp dus 
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different seedsmen, you buy —- Pe Duct ten em ^ 
O RD An «ter he from ground ; уой will seo that this is a waa bigger 
ples of | Sainfoin, and therefore they got more for their money. 
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ery square yard; le 22 — he next pia I — to introduce is, not allowing snb. b Er more ОЁ о on, Йе Í 
in sono samples of Cow grass г mde- I. coun nted 17 seod sin the} weeds to seed on the soil. tee) ea middle and end of won frost Th 
Pan Me am another 32; in another of Duloh ыбө Clover,| This "А а subjec ai imi mportance, and which has not been un per? the tm Dal oss and, ^ 
seed and very dirty, 66 ; sufficiently attended. Lo, either by the scientific or the praet/cal | prevailing charaoteristics boing 
soie uber Г 7A: Pope es sud PME t-n.square!| man. That “ill weeds grow apace ” all of us һауе kno rainfall. 1 
seeds, or a quarter of them, —— híldh b have hardly perh tered into vem — month, үй, эм эш 
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about, and when you are told that some one of these tion e nS enormous fecundity ot a and if we do so, some | below the average for 
