Show value of wild greens good reasons for the reputation of wild greens as spring tonis tonics have come to light through recent research at several state experiment stations which show that many common greens from fields fieldg and woods are rich in vitamins A and C the new mexico station found that dock pigweed wild mustard lambs quarters and russian thistle are particularly rich r i c h in carotene source of vitamin A and ascorbic acid vitamin Q C but that dandelion and sow thistle are less rich the florida station reports that three common wild greens showed up well in vitamins lambs quarters p 0 k e weed for 64 poke salad and fee weed how wild greens compare with cultivated greens gaelens in vitamin value has been investigated at the oklahoma and maine stations the oklahoma station tested fresh cooked and frozen wild greensand greens and found that pokeweed tall dock and curly dock conta contain in twice as much vitamin C as spinach poverty weed shepherds purse and lambs quarters contain about the same amount but chickweed dandelion and prickly lettuce contain less vitamin C content appears to be greater in plants exposed to full sunlight growing jn in fertile uncultivated soil the maine station reports that dandelions fid dle heads ostrich fern have about the same riboflavin value as cultivated greens |