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Know Your Weeds Before You Attack // Unwanted Plants Can Be Controlled
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19950903
Author:MARGE COLBORN
Ralph Waldo Emerson felt kindly toward them.
William Shakespeare loathed them.
John Russell Lowell felt sorry for them, and, in a calmer moment, Shakespeare defended them.
We're talking weeds here, the bane of most gardeners' summer existence and fodder for literary expression.
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered," wrote Emerson, while Lowell penned the familiar axiom, "A weed is no more than a flower in disguise." Shakespeare declared weeds "noisome" plants that "without profit suck the soil's fertility from wholesome flowers," but in a kinder and ...
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