Plants That Spread Quick

Tle dandelion is not an old-world flower, not a native of America, sav far to the north and on some oí the bighest L our western mountalns, lays 9t. Nicholas. But somehow it wag brought here, perhaps from Englaad in oíd colonial times. Now we see its golden heads n feathary baila at every grassy coadslde, the "êlocka" the boys and glrls blow to teil the hour. A few years ago farmerg in the northwest found a new weed, a vile, prickly weed, in their wheat flelds. In a vcry short time thls weed, the Russian thistle, has spread over wide acres of the best farm land in that part of the country and has done great injury to the crops. How do these plants Bpread so fast and so far? They are not carried about and planted. No ono would be so foolish as to sow Russian thistles. The mother-plant must have ways of her own for sending her offspriag abroad into the world. Plant propágate themselves in two wayg- from seed or from buds. Sometimea these buds aro borne on slender runners. A strawberry plant, after it nat blossomed, begins to send out suolx runners, with buds, unfolding tufts of leaves, along them. These tufts are at first connected with the parent plant, but later the runners between break away and each tuft becomes a new plant. Many grasses, like Bermuda grasa and the troublesome quick or couch grass, have creeping sterns, each joJnt sending out a bunch of roota blow and a bud on the upper aide. It you try to hoe up such grasses you only make matters worae„for each joint when cut off is ready to form an Independent plant. Such g?aases spread very fast and soon take possession of the land they get into.