A weed lias been defined as any plant growing in cultivated ground to tlio injury of the crop or desired vegetation or to tho disfigurement of - the place. Grass and clover are useful plants in a meadow, but they are weeds in a rose garden. Poppies are very attractive in the garden, but they become weeds when they grow in a wheat field, for they take from the ground nourishment which is needed for the wheat. In order to be a weed a plant must be a competitor with crops. It depends not so much on tho kind of plant as the place where it, is growing ns to whether a plant is a weed in the accepted sense.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 102, 1 May 1941, Page 4
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