Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — Grows Rapidly. [ARTICLE]

Grows Rapidly.

Within the last two or three years French engineers have undertaken the sowing of railroad embankments with poppy seeds, as, when once established, that prolific plant covers the soil with a net-work of roots that prevent it from washing away during heavy rains, or from upheaval when frost Is coming out of the ground In the spring