School: Balscadden (roll number 9492)
- Location:
- Balscaddan, Co. Dublin
- Teachers: P. Ó Séaghdha Francis Shaw
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the names of weed's.
The worst weed's that grow on the land are Farebann it has a yellow flower, and spreads quickly over the ground and destroys the crops. Butter dock and Lambs-quarter also destroy the crops, but they have no flower.
Dandelion and Tansy has a yellow flower. Convolvulus spreads very quickly along a ditch; it has a lovely white flower. Meadow=Sweet has a cream flower and it is poison; it grows along the banks of a ditch. The Goldilock's is not uncommion in woodland's and shady hedge banks, and is often called Woodfoot, It is like the yellow Rock-Rose. Hemlock is a very poisonous plant, it has a white flower. Milk-Weed, Gruncle, and Spunk's also destroy the crops because they smother them.
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