Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-07-16
The White Daisy.

Mr.. EDITOR II am always pleased to find
in your truly valuable and ever welcome
Freeman various suggestions, from time to
time, which are of practical business mpor-
lance and [ have known some bit of CORES
pondence, some hint in regard to every day
concerns, if rightly made use Of to be of
more value than the cost of whole years
subscription to your paper
am not very scientific writer, as you
undoubtedly perceive, yet l will try to make
my communication as ineligible as possible.
1t is not for the purpose of giving informa-
ton that now write,-that desirable article
I wish to obtain The NOW fields of this
beautiful town are almost universally cursed
with that worse than useless vegetable, the
Daisy.
Now, has not some inventive genius dis
covered an antidote for the removal of this
evil? If so he will greatly oblige me, and
perhaps others, by making it known.
once had beautiful piece of land cover
ed with this obnoxious plant. AT first | re.
garded it with that calm indifference one
usually regards irremediable evil, and bore
with it in silent endurance until perceivng
that it was spreading rapidly, Ibegan to de-
wise some means for its determination, was
determined to do it in the most thorough
manner possible With this idea paramount
in my mind, undertook the laborious task
with the set purpose of pulling up every
vestige of the depredating foe, and destroy
them root and branch. Ilabored with all
the patient diligence poor humanity is ca
pable Of under such discouraging circum-
stances, and with an energy that would
have done credit to Benedict Arnold while
scaling Abrahams Heights, until the desira-
Bile object was accomplished: for it was a
slow, toilsome, disagreeable, and, to use
common expression, puttering job, to pull
whole field of daises, one by one. I had
no doubt, in the simplicity of my mind, but
that had completely subdued them, and /
recommended the same process to others who
were troubled in like manner.
Judge then Of my surprise, the following
summer, to find they had again sprung up
small and feeble Il had evidently damaged
the constitution of the plaguey things but
more numerous and even more difficult tc
destroy than before
| now resolved to pillow it up, and did, Their
planted and hoed it well, and afterwards put
it down to grass. The result of this was
that for few years, the grass maintained it,
supremacy; but the daises round the border
together with those that had survived the
blowing, began to increase in number, unit
at last, they gained the ascendancy, and ruled
with despotic sway; the other species O.
grass being but poorly able to compete with
so powerful an antagonist, for such is the OBJ
stinate nature of the daisy that wherever
they grow they will not permit anything else
to grow to advantage; and wherever that in
creases, other and more valuable grass must
necessarily diminish. Thousands have prov
ed the truth of this to their cost.
have seen beautiful mow-6elds interspers
ed here and there with clump of daises
which would continue to increase until they
covered the whole field. / have seen othe
fields, equally beautiful, with only one spo
of daises, and that, perchance in some obscur,