Show RAPID SPREAD OF PLANTS seize wide stretches of land in glo r ous profus on it Is marvelous how rapidly some plants will spread themselves over wide stretches of land sas long mans man s magazine the writer was stuck struck with the way in which the yel yet low IOA charlock tool too possess on of the line when the meon mean valley railway was being made a few years ago the very next spring after the embank ments were vere thrown up their sides were clothed with this rampant and conspicuous cruc fier A line of yel low acres the country marked in many places the course of the th e railway poppies too for some unknown rea son will occasionally appear in a S range and nond wonderful erful profusion the striking instance related by lord ma caulay may be quoted by way of illus after the batte of landen the ground he tells us during many months was strewn with sl alls and bones of men and slid horses and with inith fragments of hats and shoes saddles and holsters the next summer the soli soil fertilized by twenty thou thousand tand corpses broke forth into millions of poppies |