. The standard cyclopedia of modern agriculture and rural economy, by the most distinguished authorities and specialists under the editorship of Professor R. Patrick Wright ... ommon throughout Britain on dry, hillywastes and bushy places, where it flowers pro-fusely in spring and early summer. Whereverbroom (or also furze) occurs, the land is almostsure to be suitable for timber-planting, as it isgenerally loamy and well drained. But as thelofty spreading growth of Broom is dangerousto young trees, it should, before planting, be cutover with the switch-bill in June or July, afterthe flowering
. The standard cyclopedia of modern agriculture and rural economy, by the most distinguished authorities and specialists under the editorship of Professor R. Patrick Wright ... ommon throughout Britain on dry, hillywastes and bushy places, where it flowers pro-fusely in spring and early summer. Whereverbroom (or also furze) occurs, the land is almostsure to be suitable for timber-planting, as it isgenerally loamy and well drained. But as thelofty spreading growth of Broom is dangerousto young trees, it should, before planting, be cutover with the switch-bill in June or July, afterthe flowering, but before the ripening of the seedpods, and then burned in late summer orearly autumn to kill it outright, or check itsgrowth until the young crop planted in thefollowing spring outgrows the danger of beingovergrown and interfered with. This will usu-ally suffice for ordinary young Broom; but ifthe growth of old Broom be so strong as tonecessitate grubbing up by the roots, then thisshould be done in 4 ft. strips along the lines tobe planted, and the rubbish burned when dryenough. [j. n.] Broom-rape, including Clover-rape(Orohanohe).—This plant is destitute of green. Broom-rape {Orohancke major)1, Calyx segment. 2, CoioUa open. 3, Ovary. colouring matter, and so, unlike green plants,is impotent to manufacture sugar and starchfrom carbon dioxide and water to meet itsfood requirements. Under these circumstancesbroom-rape betakes itself to a parasitic modeof life, and becomes a robber of other it is robbing a broom it is a broom-rape; ifa clover, a clover-rape, and so on. To get com-mand of the food in the plant to be robbed, theparasite makes a special tool, called a sucker,which is inserted into the host plant^-always, beit noted, into the root of the host. This peculiarmode of attack entitles these rape plants to thespecial name root - parasite. Once the robbergets command of food resources, he immediatelyturns them to good account, for he transformsthem into a co
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