Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . s rapidly spreadingthroughout the State; apparently from the West and South-westportions, eastward and Dorthward. It is char-acterized by its deep running roots; straggling,branching, half shrubby growth; its stems,branches and leaves thickly armed with sharp,:jf stout, yellow thorns; blueish-white or blue po-tato-like flowers, and greenish-yellow globu-lar berries filled with pulp and seeds. I have met with this weed all along the OhioRiver bottoms, and the lands bordering therivers and streams flowing into it; be
Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . s rapidly spreadingthroughout the State; apparently from the West and South-westportions, eastward and Dorthward. It is char-acterized by its deep running roots; straggling,branching, half shrubby growth; its stems,branches and leaves thickly armed with sharp,:jf stout, yellow thorns; blueish-white or blue po-tato-like flowers, and greenish-yellow globu-lar berries filled with pulp and seeds. I have met with this weed all along the OhioRiver bottoms, and the lands bordering therivers and streams flowing into it; beyond this,its most plentiful territory, I have met it in(Calhoun, Wirt, Gilmer, Randolph, Webster,Nicholas, Greenbrier, Summers, Monroe, Fay-ette, Kanawha, Monongalia and Jefferson coun-ties; and have authentic repi rts cf its presencein every other county in the State. It is con-sidered a new pest in localities in Greenbrier, (223), Upshur in1888, (238), Barbour (56, 122); Harrison, in 1889, (275), alongthe railroad tracks (90); Brooke (193), and in Doddridge (163) Sand Briar. 275 Although this weed prefers a sandy soil, and in such devel-ops its greatest vigor, still there is no soil in the State in which itwill not grow and thrive. It is so tenacious of life that it becomesalmost impossible to get rid of it when it is once fully introducedin any given locality. I have met with it in such dense patches inpasture lands that cattle would not browse around it or pass throughits formidable growth. In places where it is allowed to gain a goodfooting, it monopolizes the soil, and spreads its roots far and wide. A special warning against this weed seems necessary, andwere weed laws ever operative an especially stringent one shouldbe enacted against this species; but as they are not, then let everyfarmer who sees this plant upon his land or roadside be a law untohimself and use his mattock skillfully; let him fight it as he wouldSatan and with as much courage and determinat
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