Eureka Reporter | 1904-12-23 | Page 7 | Rapid Spread of Plants

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 0 land says long man s magazine the writer was struck with the way in which the yel low charlock took possession of the line when the meon valley railway was being made a few 5 3 ears ago the very nest next spring after the embank ments were thrown up their sides were clothed with this rampant and conspicuous crucifier cruci fler A line of el low across the country marked tn in many places the course of the railway poppies too for some unknown rea son will occasionally appear in strange and wonderful profusion the striking instance related by lord ma caulay maa ma be quoted by v way ay of illus after the batte of landen the ground he tells us durt during ng many months was strewn with skulls and bones of men and horses and ith fragments of hats and shoes saddles and holsters the next summer the soil fertilized by twenty thousand corpses broke forta into millions of poppies