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Images and text from Farm Weeds of Canada by George H. Clark, B.S.A. and James Fletcher, LL.D., F.R.S.C., F.L.S. with illustrations by the Canadian naturalist Norman Criddle. Published by direction of the Hon. Sydney A. Fisher, Minister of Agriculture, Ottawa, 1906.
Norman Criddle died in 1933, and the images are out of copyright.
You can buy a modern reprint of this book, Farm Weeds, from Lea Valley in Canada.
Title: Farm Weeds
Published by: Dominion of Canada Department of Agriculture
Date: 1906
Total items: 28
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
The illustration is Lesser Burdock, which is also shown in Plate 27. The text reads, Farm Weeds, Department of Agriculture, Canada, 1906. [$]
Dominion of Canada
Department of Agriculture
Branch of the Seed Commissioner
Farm Weeds of Canada
by
George H. Clark, B.S.A.
and
James Fletcher, LL.D., F.R.S.C., F.L.S.
with illustrations by
Norman Criddle
Published by direction of
the Hon. Sydney A. Fisher, Minister of Agriculture
Ottawa, 1906 [more...] [$]
Blue Lettuce, Lactuca pulchella, DC.
“Other Enlish names: Showy Lettuce, Large-flowered Blue lettuce.
Other Latin names: Mulgedium pulchellum, Nut.; Mulgedium acuminatum, DC.; Sonchus pulchellus, Pursh.
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This is a detail from the picture of seeds of various Canadian farm weeds showing the seeds of a single plant, Yarrow. [more...] [$]
This is a detail from the picture of seeds of various Canadian farm weeds showing the seeds of a single plant, Burdock. [more...] [$]
This is a detail from the picture of seeds of various Canadian farm weeds showing the seeds of a single plant, Knapweed. [more...] [$]
This is a detail from the picture of seeds of various Canadian farm weeds showing the seeds of a single plant, Canada Thistle. [more...] [$]
This is a detail from the picture of seeds of various Canadian farm weeds showing the seeds of a single plant, Fall Dandelion Seeds. [more...] [$]
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