. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. Fig. 421. Prickly comfrey {Symphytum asperrimum). Sacaline (Polygonum Sachalinenae). PolygonncecE. A tall bushy perennial (6-12 ft.) forage plant that gives little promise. It does not grow well from seeds, but may be propagated by root-cuttings. The stems are woody when two to three feet high ; leaves broad and heart-shaped. It is not drought- resistant. It met with some succe
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. Fig. 421. Prickly comfrey {Symphytum asperrimum). Sacaline (Polygonum Sachalinenae). PolygonncecE. A tall bushy perennial (6-12 ft.) forage plant that gives little promise. It does not grow well from seeds, but may be propagated by root-cuttings. The stems are woody when two to three feet high ; leaves broad and heart-shaped. It is not drought- resistant. It met with some success in Florida, where the succulent young stems were relished by stock. It forms a great mass of roots and is tena- cious. Once much advertised as a forage plant. (Fig. 1881, Cyclo. Hort.) Samphire (Salicornia herbacea). Cheiiopodiaceoe. A succulent annual plant with leafless, jointed, branching stems six inches to two feet high. It belongs to the goosefoot or pigweed family. It is abundant along the coast from Anticosti south to Georgia; it is also found in salt marshes in the interior from Manitoba to Utah. It is much relished by cattle. Not in cultivation. Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius). Leguminosce. A leguminous shrub, with yellow pea-like flowers on nearly leafless green stiff branches, native to Europe. (Fig. 42-3.) It is naturalized in this country, growing on stony or sterile soils and establishing itself in open woodlands. The slender twigs are used in parts of Europe as a sheep for- age, being said to be more valuable than furze. It appears not to have attracted much attention as a forage plant in North America. As a naturalized plant it occurs mostly from New Jersey, southward in the seaboard region, and it is reported in Massa- chusetts and Nova Scotia; also on Vancouver Island. Shad scale (Atriplcx canescens). Chenopodiacece. The most important of the American saltbushes, of which there are about fifty species in the western part of North America. Shad scale is a
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