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beyond which the grass is kept closely cut as a lawn about the dwelling 

 above referred to. Evidently the grass between the lawn and the street 

 is allo./ed to nature before it is cut, a period which allows also for 

 the maturity/ of the spurge. 



As to the persistency of the species in the face of a determined 

 effort to eradicate it, I cannot speak from /ide experience, but my be- 

 lief is that it is not difficult to get rid of it if one wishes to do so, 

 And for this reason:- when, some fifteen years ago we first took posses- 

 sion of this place, I found, on one part of the house grounds, a tangle 

 of low blackberry vines, grass and this Euphorbia. It seemed to ue then 

 a discouraging task to get them out of the way. But by frequent cutting 

 I soon found that the undesired plants were willing to give up the strug' 

 gle , and I have had no trouble from them since. Just beyond the limits 

 of my c\itting however, they are holding their own with unabated vigor. 



As the first house here was built by my ancestors in the latter 



been 



part of the seventeenth century, it is likely that the plants hare long 

 in possession of certain places where they still persist. Ever since 

 we have been here I have looked for fruit, but have never seen it here. 



