| Show Plants Tht Spd Quickly The dandelion I an old world flower rot ivtivo in Amirlco save far to the north and ou engage of the highest of our western mountains But somehow It was brought here perhaps from Eng laud In old colonial Union Now wo see Its golden heads Nod feathery balls at every gray roadside tho clocks the boys and girls blow to tell tho hour A few years ago farmers In the northwest found a new weed u vile prickly weed in their wheatfiolds In a very short tlmo this weed the Russian thistle has spread over wlilo acres o tho best farm laud In that part of the country aDd has douo great Injury to the crops How do these plants spread ao fast sad HO fur They are not carried abont and planted No ono would bo so foolish fool-ish an to sow Russian thistles The mother plant must have ways of her owu for Bonding her offspring abroad Into In-to tho world Plants propagate themselves them-selves lu two ways from seed or from buds Sometimes these buds are homo 00 slender rnlnora A trwbrry plant for it has blossomed begins to send out such with buds Oeh runuerrf wlh unfolding tart at leaves along them These tutu lire at firt t ronnrrlnl wlm Ihn parent I plant but litter tho runners between I break away und each tuft bon me I I new plan Many graces like Bermuda I amandthe tronbleflomequickprconch grass tronblMomoqnik rJch I I Krais have creeping license each joint pending nut a unch 1 of root below and bud i n tho uppor Ih I yon try to ties up such grastev you only make matters I worse for each Joint when ent off In ready to form im independent plant Such grassed f = prt ad very fast aud coon tako possession of tile Inl thy get I I Into Thomas II Kearney Jr lu ht NlcliolA Nteholr I i |
