Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . smade to reclaim the land. In Hampshire also it is a very trouble-some weed (119.) The only method of successful action against the vine is thor-ough grubbing during a very dry season, though people susceptibleto the poison should not attempt to work at it. Single drop doses of an alcoholic tincture of the wholeplant, morning and night twice a week, is often curative of certainkinds of rheumatism, especially muscular forms that are worse indamp weather, and where there is a deal of stiffness on first be-ginning to
Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . smade to reclaim the land. In Hampshire also it is a very trouble-some weed (119.) The only method of successful action against the vine is thor-ough grubbing during a very dry season, though people susceptibleto the poison should not attempt to work at it. Single drop doses of an alcoholic tincture of the wholeplant, morning and night twice a week, is often curative of certainkinds of rheumatism, especially muscular forms that are worse indamp weather, and where there is a deal of stiffness on first be-ginning to move, that gets better as the muscles are worked a best application to parts effected by the vine is some alkalinewash like a solution of common washing soda. A wash made byboiling elder leaves in buttermilk is recommended. Poultices ofthe fresh leaves of Vervain (weed No. 1 \?S), often prove a greatrelief. The milk of Wild Cotton (weed No. 119) applied to theparts affected will cure nearly every time (55). See also remarksunder weed No. (130.). 229 PEA & BEAK. FAMILY. This familylike flower similarPeanut, etc., etc. 37 includes all those plants that have a butterfly-to those of the Pea, Bean, Redbud, Locust, KABBIT-FOOT CLOVER. (A) Trifolium arvense, L. An erect hairy, branching, clover; with soft oblong hairyheads, bearing some resemblance to a rabbits paw. A native ofEurope, now becoming quite thoroughly naturalized in thiscountry. Its presence is such a plain advertisement of thin soil,and neglected agriculture, that all who have it upon their landsshould adopt methods of improvemet by higher cultivation andmore thorough fertilzation, that will supplant it with more valuablegrowths. 38. YELLOW OK HOP CLOVER. (A.) Trifolium agrarium, L. This little weed creeping surely and persistently westwardfrom the Atlantic seaboard is now found quite plentifully in the val-ley counties. It may be readily recognized from its small dense,oblong heads of yellow blossoms, low hab
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