Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 112
, eat the sharp-pronged seeds, whichseem to us hardly palatable. Catherine Lee Carter (age 14). It is only when we desire to cultivate cer-tain plants that others become weeds — fora weed is a plant that persists ingrowing where it is not wanted.Hence the farmer is troubled withmany weeds, for many… … QUEEN ANNES LACE IN A CORNER OF A FIELD. The pest of the farmer, the delight of the naturalist. certain plants, our young folk regard all plantsas does the grown-up botanist. All are beau-tiful and interesting, and none more so thanthose called weeds merely because they arevery persistent in living…
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