People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1893 — The Jimson Weed. [ARTICLE]

The Jimson Weed.

New York Sun. If “jinoigon weed" were not a weed, but a costly exotic, how it would be treasured for lawns and greenhouses. The weed, or stramonium, to give it the botanical name, is now in flower, and its fragrant, lily like blossoms, are the whiter against the vigorous looking leaves of dark green. A rare Variety has a flower of pale purple. The popular name of the plant is said to be derived from “Jamestown weed,” and the tradition is that after the destruction of Jamestowji the English fotind its ruins filled vJth thickets of this stramonium.