Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1886 — The Plant for Ranks. [ARTICLE]

The Plant for Ranks.

Experience on french railways has shown that the double poppy is the best plant at present known tor consolidating, by the interlacing of its roc-ts,-the loose soil of an embankment. Hie usual grasses and clovers develop slowly. but the double poppy grows en’ough in two weeks to give some protection to the slope, and within three or four months its roots, ten or twelve inches Jong, retain the earth far-mere firmly than those of a y other grass or grain. Ton can’t count votes honestly by elect trick light— Roslon Star.