Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . be distin-guished by their square stems having small leaves clustered aroundthem at regular intervals, by their weak habit, by their small whiteflowers, and by the tenacity with which some of them cling to theclothing, they being beset with minute hooked (prickles along theangles of the stem. As cattle and sheep are often worried, and woolinjured by these* plants, the spots in which they grow should bedrained and cleared away thoroughly, as these plants will not thriveif bereft of moisture and the friendly shade of
Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . be distin-guished by their square stems having small leaves clustered aroundthem at regular intervals, by their weak habit, by their small whiteflowers, and by the tenacity with which some of them cling to theclothing, they being beset with minute hooked (prickles along theangles of the stem. As cattle and sheep are often worried, and woolinjured by these* plants, the spots in which they grow should bedrained and cleared away thoroughly, as these plants will not thriveif bereft of moisture and the friendly shade of larger vegetation. TEASLE FAMILY. 70. Teasle. Water-thistle. Tall Thistle. Fullers Card. Indian Thistle. Huttonweed. Eng-lish Thistle. (B.) Dipsacus sylvesiris, MillOf the many course weeds of the State, I know of none that have 243. been so much the object of questioning remark and wonder,and less attempted against, than this introducedmember of a small but aggressive fami-ly. The teasle is a tall, prickly, strictlyupright plant, with large opposite leavesmeeting and forming a cup at the stem,and terminated by numerous long-stalked egg-shaped prickly heads as inthe illustration here given. The plantwas introduced from Europe into theeastern United States at an early daythat the heads might serve for cardingwool; and its growth was encouragedfor that purpose. Those grown upona farm in Greenbrier county in thisteasle. State were thus protected by Volnez, the illustrious historian, as he predicted for the locality a greatmanufacturing center (218.) From such points it has escaped andspread widely. It often forms such dense thickets that cattle willnot attempt the passage of them (278.) The plant is called -Wa-ter Thistle, from the large amount of rain water often found in thecups of the leaves at their junction \vit
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