Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . There are several species of this miserable garden and way-side weed, all of which bear more or less resemblance to the onehere illustrated. They are all coarse annuals, with tufts of green orreddish minute flowers and bracts, either at the bases of the leavesor at the ends of the stems and branches. These weeds are all thenatural result of careless gardening, as they would soon be eradica-ted if they were pulled up or even cut off with the hoe each year,instead of being allowed to go to seed as is usually the case
Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . There are several species of this miserable garden and way-side weed, all of which bear more or less resemblance to the onehere illustrated. They are all coarse annuals, with tufts of green orreddish minute flowers and bracts, either at the bases of the leavesor at the ends of the stems and branches. These weeds are all thenatural result of careless gardening, as they would soon be eradica-ted if they were pulled up or even cut off with the hoe each year,instead of being allowed to go to seed as is usually the case. 283 j62. Thorny Amaranth. (A.) Amarantus spinosus, L. This species, introduced among ourlands from tropical America, bids fair to be-come more of a pest in this State than all theothek amaranths combined. It is distinguishedfrom the others by iis weaker growth and bythe presence of spines at the junction of theleaves with the stem. This plant is becoming a prominentfeature of our waste places, gardens and fields;and should be cut out each season before itripens its Thorny Amaranth. GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. 163. Lambs Quarters. (A.) Chenopodiumalbum, L. This well known plant often called pig-weed like the lastis distinguished by its light green foliage appearing as if dustedwith flour, and its flowers being arranged in in-terrupted clusters about the ends of the stemsand branches. It grows in waste places arounddwellings, in barnyards, gardens, and even culti-vated fields ; whence its presence may be re-moved by a proper cutting off of all like trashtwice )^early before Ihey go to seed. The young and tender plants of the lambsquarter, says Mr. J. R. Dodge, are collectedby the Navajoes, the Pueblo Indians of NewMexico, all the tribes of Arizona, the Diggers ofCalifornia, and the Utahs, and boiled as herbsalone, or with other food. Large quantities arealso eaten in the raw state. The seeds of thisplant are gathered by many tribes, dried, groundinto flour, and made into bread o
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