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Need advice
about weed
As ^ recent big city transplant
to Rappahannock County, I quickly learned to identify the usual (green) suspects — poison ivy, oak etc., but John Trott’s Sept. 10 piece on the “dangerous some- , times fatal” jimson weed threw me for a loop.
I had spotted a few of these plants scattered in my ‘ first year’s “Garden of Weeden” and was attracted enough by the trumpet flower and thistle to even give them , a bit of water during this summer’s drought.
I even made a mental note , to transplant them to a prominent place in a future wild flower garden and I ; thought that the only reason my neighbor’s cattle ate everything in their field except the jimson plants was because of the thorns and * thistles. Can the jimson be the secret cause of mad cow i disease? i
Omitted from Mr. Trott’s t article was some advise on how to safely get rid of jimson f weeds. Can they be dug up and burned? Is touching the I ] root also dangerous? How about agent orange? Napalm? i! Round Up? Tactical nukes? Mr. Trott forewarned and armed — we await your marching orders.
PETER CECERE
Woodville '
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