HOW WEEDS SPREAD.
SURPRISING SEED POTENTIAL. The enormous increase which results from allowing weeds to seed may be seen from the following short list published in the "Mark Lane Express," as showing the number of seeds each of the weeds named is capable of producing in a single season-.— No. of seed? on a.single plant. Groundsel ' 8,51X1 Corn cockle 2,5(10 Ufd poppy : 30,1)00 Charlock 1.000 Sow thistle IiI.OOO Blackhead 3.000 Shepherd's purse 1.300 Cow parsnip 5,000 Stinking camomile 10.(100 Ox-eye ilnisv '. 1:1.500 Burdock 2-1.5-20 Common dock 13.000 Dandelion 2,010
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1331, 8 January 1912, Page 8
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89HOW WEEDS SPREAD. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1331, 8 January 1912, Page 8
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