. Botany for agricultural students . Botany. PALM FAMILY 497 in the Southern states, West Indies, Hawaii, and Java for sugar and molasses, there are the meadow and pasture Grasses which are highly important to man. The Grasses most valuable for hay are Timothy and Redtop, while the Kentucky Blue Grass, Bermuda Grass, Brome Grass, Meadow Fescue, and Rye Grass are some of the Grasses useful for pasture. A large number of the Grasses are weeds, of which the Sand Bur, Foxtails, Chess, Wild Oats, Quack Grass, and Darnel are some of the worst ones. In the Southern states Johnson Grass, although usef
. Botany for agricultural students . Botany. PALM FAMILY 497 in the Southern states, West Indies, Hawaii, and Java for sugar and molasses, there are the meadow and pasture Grasses which are highly important to man. The Grasses most valuable for hay are Timothy and Redtop, while the Kentucky Blue Grass, Bermuda Grass, Brome Grass, Meadow Fescue, and Rye Grass are some of the Grasses useful for pasture. A large number of the Grasses are weeds, of which the Sand Bur, Foxtails, Chess, Wild Oats, Quack Grass, and Darnel are some of the worst ones. In the Southern states Johnson Grass, although useful for hay and pasture, is regarded as a weed. Fig. 451. — A group of Date Palms. because it spreads so rapidly by rootstocks to regions where it is not wanted and is so hard to eradicate. Quack Grass, which spreads by rootstocks, is a bad weed in some of the Northern states. The Wild Oats is troublesome in grain fields, and grain containing the seeds of Wild Oats in considerable quantities is usually docked. The seeds of Darnel are poisonous and, when ground with Wheat, make the flour unwholesome, for which reason Darnel is a bad weed. Palm Family (Palmaceae). — This is about the only family of Monocotyledons that contains trees. Nearly all of the family. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Martin, John N. (John Nathan), b. 1875. New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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