Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . s a food for caged plant frequently becomes plentiful enough to be very trouble-some, and has been known to grow so profusely as to crowd outother vegetation. This weed yields quite readily, however, to care-ful cultivation. 23. PURSLANE. PUSSLEY. (A.) PoHulaca oleracea, L. Meaner than pussley has become in some localities a syn-onym of persistent and obtrusive offensiveness ; an expression orig-inating from the resistance of this weed to succumb to ordina^ hoe-ing, especially in damp weather. Purslane is
Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . s a food for caged plant frequently becomes plentiful enough to be very trouble-some, and has been known to grow so profusely as to crowd outother vegetation. This weed yields quite readily, however, to care-ful cultivation. 23. PURSLANE. PUSSLEY. (A.) PoHulaca oleracea, L. Meaner than pussley has become in some localities a syn-onym of persistent and obtrusive offensiveness ; an expression orig-inating from the resistance of this weed to succumb to ordina^ hoe-ing, especially in damp weather. Purslane is well known by itsfleshy leaves and stem ; its spreading, clinging, prostrate growth ;and its great vitality. Thorough hoeing, or careful cultivating, in adry season, before the seed are matured will kill it out ; especially,however, if some care is used to render the plants helpless by turn-ing them over upon their backs as one would turtles. I This weed was once considered a good pot-herb, but of lateryears it has been supplanted by much more esculent vegetables. ST. JOHNS. WORT ^-tOC^X \ / 24. St. Johns-WOTt. St. (P.) Hypericum perforatum, erect, woody herb, 1 to 2-feet high, branching, with nu-merous opposite leaves dotted with minute black spots, rooting off-sets from the base of the stem, and bearing many clusters of yellowflowers like those in the cut above. This intruder often becomes avery troublesome weed in pastures, and should be pulled up byeveryneat farmer as soon as discovered. In an early day it was 224 supposed to be the cause of a disease then prevalent among cattle,characterized by ulcerous sores appearing upon different parts of theanimal, and affecting white cows, and horses with white feet andnoses especially ; however, as this disease has disappeared, and theSt. Johns-wort has not, it must have been due to some other cause;probably an epidemic. The plant has been recommended in fresh decoction, for coughsand hoarseness (188 ); and bei
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