. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. 224 LEGUMINOSAE (PULSE FAMILY) Means of control Let the infested meadows be cleansed by fire, burning them over in August or at the time of maturing seeds, thus destroying all this year's plants and their progeny while not seriously harming the roots of the perennial grasses. If next year some seeds that have lain dormant in the soil spring up, see that the plants are either cut or pulled before seed
. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. 224 LEGUMINOSAE (PULSE FAMILY) Means of control Let the infested meadows be cleansed by fire, burning them over in August or at the time of maturing seeds, thus destroying all this year's plants and their progeny while not seriously harming the roots of the perennial grasses. If next year some seeds that have lain dormant in the soil spring up, see that the plants are either cut or pulled before seed development. Or, if too numerous for that, repeat the flaming purification. On lands that are not in danger of washing and can safely be put under the plow, a cultivated crop requiring careful hoe-culture should be grown before reseeding heavily with better forage. No annual plant so dangerous to the health of grazing animals should be allowed to Fig. 160. — Dyer's DYER'S GREENWEED Genista tinctdria, L. • Other English names: Woad-waxen, Dyer's Broom, Dyer's Whin, Base Broom, Alleluia. Introduced. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by woody, creeping rootstocks. Time of bloom: June to July. Seed-time: July to August. Range: Maine to Massachusetts and eastern New York. Habitat: Dry uplands. Time was when the clothing of a New Eng- land household was spun, woven, and dyed at home; then the Genista was cultivated as a useful and necessary plant. Used by itself, it colored woolen cloth yellow; combined with Woad (Isatis tinctdria), a blue-dye plant of the Mustard Family, it dyed green. But, its usefulness gone, it was left uncared for and "escaped," becoming so abundant in some localities that dry upland pastures are some- times yellow in summer with its bloom. Cattle will eat it when other forage is scarce, with the Greenweed (Genista result that its bitter taste is imparted to tinctoria). the dairy products. (Fig. 160.). Please note that these images are
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