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The Garden Magazine, April, 1920 
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THREE WAYS TO GET RID OF 
DANDELIONS 
EXPERIMENTS made at the Colorado 
' Agricultural College show that there are 
several ways in which Dandelions may be eradi- 
cated from lawns. There is first the familiar 
and common method of digging them out which, 
as usually done, is a waste of time; for when a 
Dandelion root is cut off near the top, it simply 
gets very busy and produces several plants! 
But when the digging is done early in the season 
just before the plants mature seed, and again in 
the autumn, the weed can be kept in control 
fairly well, providing seed is not introduced from 
other sources. 
Dandelions spread mostly from seed. Seven 
days are required after the first day of blooming 
for the seeds to reach the germinating age. If 
all flower heads are cut off once a week, there will 
be no seeds, but many flower heads are missed 
because they lie too close to the ground to be 
reached by lawn mower blades. An excellent 
tool especially designed for gathering them is 
really a rake with protrusions that resemble a 
saw blade except that they are longer. With 
this the young flower buds, the heads in bloom, 
and the seed-ripening heads may be gathered 
in one operation. Of course, the plants remain, 
but they can be gradually dug out. 
It is possible to dig deeply enough to remove 
the whole plant, and this method can be used 
advantageously when the number is not large. 
It is often followed in public parks, sometimes for 
areas which cover several hundred acres. The 
work is best done when the ground is rather soft, 
following a rain. A tool which has a blade eight 
inches long and one inch wide is used, the blade 
being thrust into the soil about four inches from 
the plant, and at an angle of forty-five degrees. 
The root is not cut off, but pried out by pushing 
down on the handle of the tool. Of course this 
is laborious and defaces the lawn somewhat; 
but it is most effective, and the addition of a little 
grass seed will soon cover the bare spots. 
An altogether different way of eradicating the 
Dandelion is by means of herbicides, gasolene 
and kerosene being among the most useful. A 
teaspoonful of gasolene applied in the centre 
of a Dandelion plant will usually kill it, although 
twice as much may be required for very large 
plants. Usually the leaves will wilt very quickly, 
and the plants appear quite dead in a few days. 
Sometimes the entire root shrivels up and can be 
pulled out of the ground. Something which drives 
the gasolene into the head of the plant is best for 
making the application — often a large sized oil can 
will serve. The fluid may kill some of the grass 
around the plants, but reseeding will remedy 
that. Kerosene is about as effective as gasolene, 
and should be used in the same way or a smaller 
amount of coal tar creosote may be used, from 
a quarter to a half teaspoonful being enough for 
each plant. This method of exterminating the 
Dandelion is one which can be adopted to ad- 
vantage by the owners of suburban and village 
places. 
A SPRAY FOR ALL WEEDS 
Finally, there is the spraying method, which is 
really the cheapest and most effective when a 
lawn is badly infested. A solution of ij pounds 
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