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Show Popplas Termed Nuisance Bed popples, that have played so important a part In wartime and post-war literature, are a bothersome bother-some weed In spite of their pie-turesquenes8. pie-turesquenes8. How much of a weed they are, has been realized as a result of tests conducted at the Bothamstead experimental station sta-tion In London. Soil from a somewhat some-what weedy field was potted up In pots having a surface area of about one-fourth of a square foot, and kept watered for several years, until un-til all weed seeds had sprouted. sprout-ed. Popples were taken as a sample sam-ple weed, and only poppy seedlings counted. An average pot yielded more than 1. 000' of them. Calculated on the basis of this soil sample, ao acre of English field soli would contain more than 300,000,000 poppy seeds. |