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Title: Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Millspaugh, Charles Frederick, 1854-1923.
Subjects: Weeds - West Virginia.
Publisher: West Virginia University. Agricultural Experiment Station
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
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lopment as a weed,no. CHICCORY. (P.) Cichorium Intybus, L, The Arabians not only initiated us in the use of a decoction of thefragrant and stimulating coffee bean as a beverage, but gave usits chief adulterant—the roasted root of this brilliantly blueastor-like plant—as well; which, being cultivatedin various places for this purpose, has spread as aweed in many localities. Chiccory has a coarse,greatly branched growth from a deep root; beau-titul double sky-blue flowers; and oblong, partlyclasping, sharply cut, pointed leaves. As a weedin this State, I have met the plant only along thepike from Martinsburg to Shepherdstown. Itshould be prevented from spreading by the dili-gent use of the mattock yearly, before the flower-ing season, until it is eradicated. As regards the use of chiccory, Dickens, theEnglish novelist, says in his Household Words:The great demand for chiccory has led to its veryextensive cultivation in this country. *The bleached leaves are sometime s used as a sub-
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