Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . ble for them to find anything else ; they seem tolike it at that time, but do not thrive well upon ir. If it is not mowndown the stalks remain erect till clover cutting lime the next year,when it is almost impossible to cut them with any safety, for theyare as hard es sticks, hence the origin of the name Stick Weed Iam told that it usually grows on old worn out fields in Virginia, andthat is why it is called by some Old Field Sweet. In this localityit usually grows fastest, and is most troublesome, on our bestlands
Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . ble for them to find anything else ; they seem tolike it at that time, but do not thrive well upon ir. If it is not mowndown the stalks remain erect till clover cutting lime the next year,when it is almost impossible to cut them with any safety, for theyare as hard es sticks, hence the origin of the name Stick Weed Iam told that it usually grows on old worn out fields in Virginia, andthat is why it is called by some Old Field Sweet. In this localityit usually grows fastest, and is most troublesome, on our bestlands. Gen. Jno. McCausland, of Mason csunty, sa3s: WhiteDevil, a weed growing on heavy exhausted clay land, I think willbecome very troublesome. The stem is very hard and woody, andit branches like a pine tree. I have seen fields so covered with itthat they had the appearance of a buckwheat crop. This weed is considered new in Mason (170), Cabell (229),Kanawha (154), Wayne (178), and several other of cur southerncounties. It is often mentioned as being relished by sheep and cat-. 248 tie (154,229), and is an excellent late, honey producing plant(178,191). Fields infested with this plant should be cut over while theweed is in flower, and the crop gathered and composted ; which, asthe plant contains per cent, of nitrogen. per cent, of phos-phoric acid, and per cent of potash, will fully repay the trou-ble especially as the seeds are thus destroyed, and the roots will notoutlive such treatment many seasons. 80. Blue Devil. Stick Weed. Bee Weed. Fall Aster. (P.) Aster cordifalius, L. var. laevi-gatas, Porter. This aster differs from the last in its taller growth, largerlower leaves, longer and less straggling branches and its generallylarger and bluer flowers growing mostly on the end of the smallerbranches. It is considered a weed much as the last species, andsometimes the names are intermixed for both. It is considered anew weed in Greenbrier (142,) Upshur(270), Barbou
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