. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). New Series, October, 1905. 343 It seemed very strange to me the first time I saw a large field of teasels so carefully cultivated in straight rows. I learned to know the teasel when I was a little boy in Indiana, but there it is always a weed. It grows along the roadside and the thrifty farmer hastens to cut it down before it goes to seed. I have often seen it growing as a weed along the roadside in this State. There is some slight difference between the
. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). New Series, October, 1905. 343 It seemed very strange to me the first time I saw a large field of teasels so carefully cultivated in straight rows. I learned to know the teasel when I was a little boy in Indiana, but there it is always a weed. It grows along the roadside and the thrifty farmer hastens to cut it down before it goes to seed. I have often seen it growing as a weed along the roadside in this State. There is some slight difference between the teasel that the farmer cultivates and the one that usually occurs as a weed. Get one from the roadside and one from the field and see whether you can find the differ- ence. Probably the cultivated teasel was at first wild,— a weed. But man has cultivated it so long that it has become in some ways quite differ- ent from its wild relations. Now I think you can see how a plant where it is not wanted may be regarded as a weed while in other places it is often cultivated as a very useful plant. Many of our weeds, like tlie teasel, are foreigners which have come to us in various ways. In their own home they may be valu- able cultivated plants or at least harmless, growing in places where they are not in the way. weeds almost and they seem to If, however, you good qualities of surprised to find valuable to some Alany of these plants, aside from to man. Our teasel about the stem at formed by the leaves which are a long time after rams these keeps animals, as ants, snails and reaching and destroying the little lake which they cannot interesting things haps you will find ^^^_ ,_^vild. 'easel. How does it A few plants are everywhere they grow be entirely worthless. began to look for the weeds, you would be how many are really one, somewhere. weeds are interesting any use they may have has peculiar little cups each joint. They are bases of the two grown together. For basins are full of
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