This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...nearly everywhere. Seed whitish, thin, 11-inch long, fl, wide; carried to some extent by the wind. The parsnip, like the carrot, may be killed out through deep cutting before the plants bloom. This work may be done either in late fall or early spring. About celery gardens the presence of the fungus parasite on wild ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...nearly everywhere. Seed whitish, thin, 11-inch long, fl, wide; carried to some extent by the wind. The parsnip, like the carrot, may be killed out through deep cutting before the plants bloom. This work may be done either in late fall or early spring. About celery gardens the presence of the fungus parasite on wild parsnip and wild carrot should lead to their complete destruction_ 316 OHIO EXPERIMENT STATION. 152. Meadow-Parsnip, (P.) T /zaspium sp. The meadow parsnips are similar in appearance to wild parsnip though much smaller and with stems much less or not at all grooved. They sometimes infest fence rows and cultivated ground along ditches. Destroyed by frequent cutting with hoe and by cultivation. 153. Caraway, (B.) Carz'um Cami L. It resembles wild carrot yet may be distinguished from it by the difference in the flower clusters; those of caraway not forming the peculiar bird's nest of wild carrot. The roots are thick and fleshy. This plant has escaped about Vermillion, Erie county, where it is proving as troublesome as wild carrot. It is also reported from several other places. It should be treated with the same vigor as that accorded wild carrot. 154. Poison-Hemlock, (B.) Poison-Hemlock is a large, much branched, European weed, growing in waste places. It has spotted stems, large, com-pound leaves and white flowers. This is a dangerously poisonous plant named after the Hemlock by which. as Dr. Gray ob-serves, "criminals and philosophers were put to death at Athens." It should be eradicated by digging it out annually in the spring. 155. Water-hemlock, Spotted Cowbane, Beaver-poison, (P.) Cicuta maculata L. This is a stout weed, 2 to 6 feet high, -having its stem streaked with purple; com-Fig-39-Water-hcentsm10c1L pound leaves with l
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