. Among School Gardens . Carpet Weed AN interlude: some garden weeds the dainty, exasperating carpet weed, shepherdspurse, the thistle (it will be an English or Canadianor even Russian specimen, not our good American,which clings to roadside, swamp and wood), thebindweed (one of the wild morning glories), thewild cucumber (an excellent friend as a cover vine. Leaf, Spike and Root of Broad-leaved Dock if its seed pods be picked before they ripen). Thenthere is the live-forever, out of whose thick leaveschildren make bags, by slowly and carefully rub-bing the tough skin until it loosens and form
. Among School Gardens . Carpet Weed AN interlude: some garden weeds the dainty, exasperating carpet weed, shepherdspurse, the thistle (it will be an English or Canadianor even Russian specimen, not our good American,which clings to roadside, swamp and wood), thebindweed (one of the wild morning glories), thewild cucumber (an excellent friend as a cover vine. Leaf, Spike and Root of Broad-leaved Dock if its seed pods be picked before they ripen). Thenthere is the live-forever, out of whose thick leaveschildren make bags, by slowly and carefully rub-bing the tough skin until it loosens and forms apouch. The jimson weed* with its large, curious * It is one of the night-shade family as are both black night-shade, a garden weed, and the common white potato, and is classed 213 AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS and prickly seed-pod and its luxuriant growth, isliable to appear in any garden made from a vacantlot. Then there are the speedwell with its verytiny white flowers, the galinsoga, also with littlewhite flowers and rough leafage,—new importa-tions that threaten our garden kingdoms,—whileour own evil poison ivy frequently crops up.* On farms and large areas, special means maybe used to eradicate certain weeds, as sprayingfor wild mustard. There are some chemical prepa-rations that used insmall quantities willkill weeds in walksand grass and yetnot i
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