. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1892. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. SUBSCRlPnON PRICE, $ per year, entitling the subscriber to membership ot the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario and all its privileges, including ;i copy of its valuable Annual Report, and a share in its annual distribution of plants and trees. REMITTANCES by Registered Letter ^re at our risk. Receipts will be acknowledged upon the address label. NOTES AND COMMENTS. ^ .-^ ifl«)^ Noxious Weeds.—Among the subjects discussed at the wide-awake farmer^' meeting of Wisconsin, is that of weeds, and conside
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1892. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. SUBSCRlPnON PRICE, $ per year, entitling the subscriber to membership ot the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario and all its privileges, including ;i copy of its valuable Annual Report, and a share in its annual distribution of plants and trees. REMITTANCES by Registered Letter ^re at our risk. Receipts will be acknowledged upon the address label. NOTES AND COMMENTS. ^ .-^ ifl«)^ Noxious Weeds.—Among the subjects discussed at the wide-awake farmer^' meeting of Wisconsin, is that of weeds, and considering the rapidity with which they are gaining ground on our farms and orchards and gardens of Ontario, it appears to us that we ought to make that a more common subject for discussion at farmers' meetings throughout Ontario ; not, perhaps, in mere general terms, but one by one they should each ccmc under discussion, until every farmer is up in arms against the lar}.(e army uf noxious weeds which threaten to (.lri\e him from his farm. The common burdock, Lappa Offi- cinalis, is one of our worst weeds, and one which pathmasters, as well as farmers, too often al lested in waste corners. more troublesome in the orchard, and ''^^^5i:^'>^'^'v'^^^iv;f\lJ|f/SilW^ 11. 1- . -11 '^?^^<f^"4<(/r^^'V.^^^ none harder to eradicate, especially "v^'^^'-'idS^I»i4^ -^.•rz-crss^-^ where the ground is left any time in We are inclined to commend the practice of Mr. Cole, of Wisconsin, who says that in his experience the best (.„ method of eradicating them is by cutting them off about two or three inches bt-low the surface ot the i;roiiiul dur- ing the first year of their growth. We believe that this is better than the praetiie that we have been following, namely, of cutting them the second year, as late in the season as possible, just before the seeds were mature. We hoped that, in this 58 ,„ Che orchard, and "^^^^M^i^ '-^^m^ \'A. TDMMdN C'(i< Ple
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