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Excerpt from Farm Weeds of Canada The first edition of "Farm Weeds of Canada" was distributed free to public libraries, universities, colleges, high schools, rural schools, agricultural societies and farmers' institutes and clubs. The book was designed to stimulate interest in the study of farm weeds in general, their habits of growth and the best methods of combating them. It was distributed with a view to make it conveniently available for the purpose of reference, to all who are interested in agricultural pursuits but particularly to farmers and pupils of schools in farming districts. The second edition has been prepared and published to meet the urgent requests from individuals who desire the book for their personal use. The information presented in the text is useful because the illustrations of weeds and weed seeds make it intelligible to farmers and others who are not expert in the nomenclature of plants. The expense entailed in the preparation, printing and binding of seventy-six coloured plates as contained in this volume precludes it from the list of those publications of the Department of Agriculture that are distributed generally and free of charge. The nominal price fixed for its sale will restrict its distribution to those who will preserve and make proper use of it, and will meet a part of the unusual expense incurred in its issue. The death of Dr. James Fletcher, co-editor of the first edition, caused a temporary suspension of the plans for the publication of the second edition. With his co-operation and supervision, a large number of water colour sketches of weeds were made by Norman Criddle, while employed by the Seed Branch, during the early summer of 1908. From these sketches selections were made of the illustrations of weeds and weed seeds for the 20 additional plates that are included in the second edition. The tentative general plans for the enlargement botanical re-arrangement and revision of text for a new edition of "Farm Weeds" had been discussed with Dr. Fletcher in a general way on several occasions during 1907 and the winter and early spring of 1908. It is believed that the nature of the revision is in accord with the views which he held and with the spirit of progressiveness that is clearly evident in all his life work. Considerable re-arrangement of the matter was made necessary in the second edition in order that the various plant families, genera and species might be adjusted to conform with the recommendations of the International Botanical Congress at Vienna and now generally adopted by botanists. Some additions to the subject matter have been made to include new and important information that has resulted from recent research work. In revising the descriptions of plants and seeds technical terms have been avoided whenever possible. The book is not intended for use as a text book of botany. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of ra
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