. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. WEEDS AND WILD PLANTS. 345 currants, and gooseberries come up from bird-dropped seeds. The ash and horse-chestnut appear in a troublesome way from the same cause, and the elderberry is a pest. I never have known, in my garden, an apple, pear, or plum tree to spring up spontaneously, though seedling peaches occasionally appear. Amongst destructive weeds, I have seen the Dodder {Ciiscicta epithymum, fig. 791) attack my cranberry plants, but only on one occasion. I was too
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. WEEDS AND WILD PLANTS. 345 currants, and gooseberries come up from bird-dropped seeds. The ash and horse-chestnut appear in a troublesome way from the same cause, and the elderberry is a pest. I never have known, in my garden, an apple, pear, or plum tree to spring up spontaneously, though seedling peaches occasionally appear. Amongst destructive weeds, I have seen the Dodder {Ciiscicta epithymum, fig. 791) attack my cranberry plants, but only on one occasion. I was too pleased to have a specimen in the place to do it any damage; but as I did not destroy the dodder, the dodder killed my cranberry. It is a most destructive plant to clover, killing patches of it a yard in diameter. It has no roots, but lives by sucking out by dialysis the juices of the plants on which it lives. In glancing at our weeds, it will be seen how far the presence of the river Wandle in the garden influences their growth, for the greater part of those which I have figured naturally flourish on the banks of a river or on ground adjacent to Fig. 791.—Lesser Dodder. THE ALG^. " Spawn, weeds, and filth, a leprous scum, Made the running rivulet thick and ;—Shelley. We have many Alga in my garden, which are interesting, as they represent the lowest types of vegetal life. On the palings of the Park and on the trunks of the trees a green dust is formed in winter, which is the Protococcus viridis (fig. 792). It is composed of minute cells, and a high magnifying power is required to examine them satisfactorily, shows the plant magnified 600 times; for when increased only 100 times (fig. 792) the green dust still only appears to be composed of fine particles. Fig. 793 Fig. 792.—Proto- coccus viridiS* X xoo Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and app
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