WEED. 



' are faid to be veiy fond of eating it. See Polygonum 

 ^viculare. 



Ground-qfJj 'is faid to be a very troublefome weed 



1 in the garden-grounds in the neighbourhood of London ; 



but which forr.e fuppofe to be moilly confined to the fhade 



of hedges. It is believed to be perennial in its nature. In 



order to get rid of it, the bed mode is to cut it up on its 



firft appearance. See ^gopodium Podragraria. 



I Chick-weed is a weed that fometimes grows with 



! great rapidity, and in a very luxuriant manner on garden- 



i ground that is much pulverifed and reduced by operofe 



cultivation by the fpade, and which is much enriched by 



' good manure : it is an annual weed, very produdive of 



leeds, and where it abounds much, it is perhaps improper 



to give the land or ground a fine culture until it in fome 



meafure difappears : fwine are extremely fond of this weed, 



and it is faid to be a grateful food for young chickens. See 



, Alsine Media. 



\ Black-bind-nueed in fome places is called bear-bind. It is 



a parafitical weed-plant, often chmbing up bean and other 



girden crops : it is hardy, and extremely prohfic in feeds. 



To keep garden-ground clear of it, the feeds Ihould never 



\ be fufFered to ftied or fow themfelves : the feeds contain a 



I white flower, and are faid to be good for pigeons, poultry, 



[ and fmall birds of different kinds. See Polygonum Con- 



I •volvulus. 



\ Sun /purge is an annual weed, faid to be not very trouble- 

 I fome or difficult of eradication, yet not uncommon in gar- 

 den-grounds. See Euphorbia Hel'wfcopa, &c. 



Red dead nettle, or dee nettle, is a weed of the annual kind, 

 1 according to fome, but which others confider as a perennial. 

 It is common in garden-grounds, flowering early, and for 

 I the greater part of the year. The feeds Ihould not be 

 [ fuffered to flred or difperfe themfelves over the ground, but 

 j the weeds be cut up as foon as they appear. See Lamium 

 \ Purpureum. 



I Henbit is an annual garden-weed, that fhould likewife 

 be weeded out before the feeds of it are perfefted and fcat- 

 I tered. See Lamium Amplexicaule. 



I Nettle hemp is a weed of the luxuriant, difagreeable, gar- 

 1 den kind, that fliould always be rooted out of the ground, 

 I and kept under in time to prevent its future mifcliief. See 

 I Galeopsis Tetrahit. 



Garden fow-thyile is a common weed of luxuriant growth, 

 doing great injury to the cultivated crops. It is direfted 

 that the feeds of this weed (hould never be fuffered to Ihed 

 and fpread themfelves in any fituation ; for, being furniflied 

 with feathers, they fly over a country with the wind, dif- 

 feminating themfelves widely, and vegetate on the firft loofe 

 or cultivated ground on which they fettle. It is a favourite 

 food with rabbits and hogs. See Sonchus Oleraceus, and 

 Thistle. 



Fumitory is a common, though not very injurious or 

 hurtful weed. It is an annual, and may, confeqiiently, 

 be deftroyed by preventing its feeding in an effeftual manner. 

 See FuMARiA Officinalis. 



Common thljlle is a difagreeable and troublefome weed ; 

 the feeds of which are numerous, and provided with a downy 

 material to carry them any diltance before the wind. They 

 fhould be drawn up by the roots in moift weather with 

 forceps or tongs for the purpofe, as they cannot be pulled 

 by the naked hand. 



Garden-grounds are always to be kept well freed from 

 weeds of this fort by all proper means. See Serratula 

 Arvcnfts, and Thistle. 



Groundfel, which is another very common and trouble- 

 fome weed in garden-grounds, and the feeds of which are 



feathered, as in the former cafe, being capable of fowing 

 and fpreading themfelves far and near, with this farther 

 chance of propagating themfelves, that the plant or weed 

 is extremely quick of growth. The eradication of this 

 weed from gardens mufl; confequently require unremitting 

 attention, by cutting up the young plants as foon as ever 

 they can be difcovered, and letting them run to feed as little 

 as poffible. See Senecio Vulgaris. 



Common nettle is a weed that generally grows in hedges 

 or other fliady places, but which fometimes appears in other 

 places and in garden-grounds ; in which cafes, it mull be 

 deftroyed by rooting it up in a complete manner. The 

 leaves of this weed, when cut fmall, may, it is faid by fome, 

 be mixed with the food of turkeys, and other poultry, with 

 benefit. See Urtica Dioica. 



MiJIetoe may be ranked as a garden-weed, and is very- 

 common on fruit-trees, and it is faid to be very hurtful in 

 preventing their bearing ; it fliould, of courfe, bf pulled off 

 in time, fo as to prevent that fort of injury. It is fome- 

 times, too, plucked off as a flieep-food in the winter, in hard 

 ftormy feafons. See ViscUM Album. 



Cultivated early potatoe, though it cannot be properly 

 ranked as a weed, is often troublefome in gardens. It is 

 faid, that however valuable as a crop, it is very apt to re- 

 main in the ground, and intrude itfelf among other after- 

 crops, to their injury, as well as giving a flovenly appearance 

 to the culture. As, however, it is now found that the 

 flioots of this root will crop well after being tranfplanted, it 

 would feem to be the beft way to have them taken up from 

 among other crops as they appear, taking the advantage of 

 fhowery weather, and putting them into a bed by themfelves, 

 where they may fucceed fome early crop, fuch as winter 

 greens, fpinach, forward cabbage, and fuch like, by which 

 means other crops may be rendered clean, and thefe roots 

 be provided without any expence of feed or fets. See 

 SoLANUM Tuberofum, and Transplanting. 



Weeds injurious in Tillage and Corn Lands. — The principal 

 of thofe weeds which decidedly infeft and injure grounds 

 under the plough are thofe given below. 



Ivy-leaved chickweed is a weed that is faid fometimes to 

 abound very much amongft wheat very early in the fpring, 

 but that as feeding and leaving the ground early, may per- 

 haps not much injure the crop : the feed is afferted to ripen 

 in twenty-eight days from the firft vegetation of it and the 

 fpringing up of the plant, which moftly appears in the 

 month of March, and often fends forth a plentiful produce 

 of feeds, which will lie in the ground many years, ready to 

 vegetate the next time the land is broken down and pul- 

 verized early in the fpring : this fort of work fliould, there- 

 fore, in this cafe, be done in the fallow, where that praftice 

 is in ufe, which would occafion the feeds to vegetate ; but in 

 other cafes it may be deftroyed by being ploughed under 

 before the feeds of it begin to ripen. See Veronica Hede- 

 rifolia. 



Lamb's lettuce, or corn-fallad, is a weed that has lately 

 been obferved to be more frequent in fome diftrifts than 

 formerly. It has been found in a hard tilled field in great 

 abundance. It is an annual weed ; and, though not very 

 formidable, ought to be removed from tillage-lands, as it takes 

 away a portion of the nourifliment belonging to the culti- 

 vated crops. This may pretty readily be done by pulling 

 or cutting it up, or turning it under by the plough, where 

 it can be ufed, before the feeds of it be perfectly formed. 

 See Valeriana Locujla. 



Couch of tillage-land is the produce of the three graffes 

 already noticed in a fimilar title, under the head of garden- 

 weeds, with the addition of the roots of the creeping foft 

 2 grafs, 



