778 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Avevsr 25, 1860. 
Thistle, which may be viewed as the worst of the|the time when the last drawing was made. SGA, of the rhyme we have quoted, | we Faia attack 
tribe, infesting as it does, all parts of the farm, | this the secondary b bud had grown up to a large | not by clean 
and not only — up room but living on the | prickly but abortive bud, while peran was |a as eariy a as possible ; -and thus close depasturing in 
very fat of the la made in the tertiary buds—fig. a a, for a | early spring with horses, oxen, ee sheep, ui greatly 
Carduus arvensis is described by BENTHAM as| complete plantation o of Thistle es, which h will ale | in" pew Iminishing m" pa ee zki ng nage a s 
g h thir d d nce some of these very bu ad method of a e plough only 
the commo: onest of European and Asiatic Thistles,| the third year adva y divides D ae AE m tiple 
extending fa ar to the north, though perhaps n In this last condition it is that the farmer evil n a prodigious rat n and i he a 
quite to the Arctic circle.” It has a roto, attacks them by ¢ g them down; and to pt plants thus produced whic 
perennial and creeping, with erect annual pages E ras. it kigis be seen, pulls up! t ascertain whether the individual be E 
Sor 4 feet high ;” and these peculiari of the | under such conditi iaa. that eee no injury seedling e : d 
annually increasing stems and the st ‘ll es pens. to the by om from the process :— o fully exp jane a at 
creeping rhizomata, coupled with some peculia tles cut in April ea the Thistle AY me but, as we fully ex stat, 
es. in rowth and progress of the Rens: Wil game up ti atab; ie hy qa ; 
plants, have contributed to a wide-spread belief They grow the next day ; others ; at the same time» Ha e wou i vemaxis, ne 
that the plant is hoy indebted to its creeping If in June much Thistle seed both of this and other 
habit for it ment. Farmers, indeed, uni- Teneo species is destroyed by weevils, which eat it out 
versally believe that it is not produced from They'll hardly die ; > before it scatters, a fact w ich may have le 
seed—a belief 1 that it has tended af in- Ifin August the farmer to the conclusion that Thistles produce | 
eap taha i find ir eee ore t to | only abortive seeds. Again, birds, especially the 
it d to b i Worllt,inwoutt: as: they pe are meant to | finches, are very active agents in keeping down 
of pee aid tokaudisieatts, disor his ress some important facts in the natural | Sed of Thistles; the very method, however, in 
‘ oe a, destruction lvl ‘the yy dir stem history of ihe gent It peot be derground tt which birds. feed ne ds to make a portion of seeds 
e aft i by ome > and we have seen with 
pinang Nowin|ance of the plant on early cutting; alt. 
of Thi rw time, if È consider aiy Sa tings tt ole w . From these remarks, then, it may be gathered 
S we viet on the 2 4 of ptember of last | Aboto -ground parts of the plants would natu- | | that the most effectual way vs dealing with 2a 
“ph bia , 10 seeds which we had a few days es mi ie at the frst approach of cold, we may |S with other weeds, i to | 
viously collected. By the 21st of the month the | conclude that the dee ay should every hete iy ce r ept o they 
whole had not only come up, but had — sr aR in bloom, before indeed the ina “headii is 
growt th to the condition represented i in figt . In ey obs city to be quite out, for by that time the firgt 
obser i tl ] while the tertiary | flower head will most pro abenly be in see ; and 
time however previous to buds phd eth cing to flow bee. are also ogee so a Ae hoes head we have put by to die 
Aerm of Peoli ‘weather the ‘secondary leaves had | in providing a s newer arowth of rhizomata and | may ane with the first breeze as z as 
advanced so far as to show indications of the| buds to perpetuate the growth of the plant; es 150 see 
characteristic pry foliage of the ord | hence we have a ae el in saying that never} And it is not niojn On this should be done 
the first frost coe Bh le of the plants had ap- | can this This i ten Dry ed ks pa cing af E merely on the farm; the way-sides and waste 
ae died, ja so t e-ground s at this e | places should be pestis by ar to in this 
matter. If there be no proper 
| any rate from Thistles. Hedge rows are too often 
most oai poio sources of Thistle growth, and he , 
mmon p: should be universal by which the ~ 
Wheat fields have the weeds eut between theg 
Feb, 17, 18°0. 
i grow most readily from seed, and if we are wise 
7 we shall in future stor as many T 
from Par as possible. 
THE oA tional harvest returns in another p 
CARDUUS Sarena Sown Sept. 2, corroborate those which were published last oo. 
spring came on, however, we observed that young | much good ‘ei oe done in kaping down the | Of 30 reports of the Wheat se fi in karai and 
AOS af Ere aboye “oe grou which | reproduction of oe plant, i by the August England, 1 rage. Of 33 
for exa mowing seeding is usually prevented, th hae even in eg of the Barley erop, 23 ies it les be 
ipii i the sar Peo aihe. hould prefer , and se ie as very good or over 
seed] after all being made | Thistle, seeds cess i arnt 
for carrying on the rs ge, maap belongs sooner are aera Sory ann a m 
t 
of Oats, four are under 
o its rhizomatous ipere o fa r we | away far and near, snd =< ri may th 
rage, 22 ave average and six are oyer av 
birti v 26 eas an — in — supplementary 
Tns ih a reporte rior 
can es > res boy om mer has nover ar ret agree brought about crops. j a EE pie a 
a seedling of this istle seeing t ife in| so quiet at its very g The bene aa h h the 
this condition is so shor t that the ine plant | suspected. If we fu alee his the quantity of pes of these as oaa ine an 
is scarcely developed in a Pave enable the casual | seeds that m may be produced by even eres gle one| by any one mi pal derive from them his 
observer to distinguish i: rom other seedlings | of its composite i foreta, we shall find that a pee plaid of the present harvest. In several in- / 
before it a ia e -s appare ently dies. te sk a es e» may in one season produce as many | stances, as from Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, 
i o lsewh: intimati 
fa: 
and i ti 
| baa, ‘he e plant figured k a - having Seen sre serious injury done; and though a few only of — 
ary follow. thei 
0 
rresponden: e sent i 
be 10 3000 6 pe cities reports, both of the probable harvest time and of 
seed production for. ‘ae third i =e growth of | the probable yield, yet everywhere we w the 
ondered at ripening of the grain is being delayed, and both its 
it a by, she 
at such rg a "ovcastotelly “operate to | quality and its quantity are being the 
at which hiso oh s eae | is pee a unexpecte ian of | donitan col ah we E 
which | Thistles, we that the getting rid o ana This weather, too, is general; the ad 
ha ante jn have taken ree poe a n grou re Ra be as miany: us in France, in fn He 
