. Grasses of Ontario [microform]. Grasses; Graminées. 60 I I' s i ,- mV 1 •I : Avena fatua. L.—Wild Oat. (Plate 25.) Roots.—Annual, fibrous, thickened at base. Culms.—Erect, simple, smooth. Leaves.—Leafy, linear, flat, t id rough. Inflorescence. Loose panicle, nodding, branched, and spreading. Spikelets,—Pendulous and long. Glumes.—Empty, large, long, and unequal; Flowering, rounded on back, 5-11 nerved, bearing a bent awn and covered with long brown hairs. Palea.—Shorter than its glume, ribbed, green along the margin, fringed at edge. Flowers—in July. Wild Oats are at hom(» in any soil that w
. Grasses of Ontario [microform]. Grasses; Graminées. 60 I I' s i ,- mV 1 •I : Avena fatua. L.—Wild Oat. (Plate 25.) Roots.—Annual, fibrous, thickened at base. Culms.—Erect, simple, smooth. Leaves.—Leafy, linear, flat, t id rough. Inflorescence. Loose panicle, nodding, branched, and spreading. Spikelets,—Pendulous and long. Glumes.—Empty, large, long, and unequal; Flowering, rounded on back, 5-11 nerved, bearing a bent awn and covered with long brown hairs. Palea.—Shorter than its glume, ribbed, green along the margin, fringed at edge. Flowers—in July. Wild Oats are at hom(» in any soil that will grow cereals, and they ripen their seeds among almost any cereal crop. The seeds possess wonderful vitality, some of them remaining buried in the soil for years and germinating as soon as they are brought under favorable conditions. From what has been said, it follows that on a field infested with wild oats, cereal crops should be dropped out of the rotation as far as possible; and hoed crops, soiling crops, hay, and pasture should take their place. To get the lard under grass, it should be fallowed during part of the season, lae cultivation being frequent an(' shallow, to destroy all seeds that may have germinated in the upper layer of soil. The land can then be sown with winter wheat and seeded, or with an early variety of barley, which should be cut on the green side. The treatment mentioned, is suitable for pasture land, or land which has produced a hay or soiling crop during the fore part of the 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 Harrison, F. C. (Francis Charles), b. 1871; Day, G. E; Ontario Agricultural College; Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture. Toronto : Ontario Dept. of Agriculture
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