Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1898 — Plants that Hate. [ARTICLE]

Plants that Hate.

Fancy two plants being so unfriendly tlpit the mere neighlKirhood of one Is death to the other! Yet that is the case with two well-known English plants. These are the thistle and the ra]M*. If a field 's Infected with thistles, which come up year after year and ruin the crops, all you have to do la to sow It with rape. The thistle will ha absolutely annihilated. You can’t judge lh<- dinner by the tone of the dinner belL