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THE WEED PROBLEM*

Nature volume 149, pages 594–597 (1942)Cite this article

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TO define a weed is not an easy matter since this term of opprobrium is applied in different ways by different persons. Probably the best definition is that of a plant growing where we do not want it. Nevertheless to many the designation implies a certain measure of uncontrollability, and it is more particularly these weeds, which are the bane of the farmer and the gardener, that concern us here.

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SALISBURY, E. THE WEED PROBLEM*. Nature 149, 594–597 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149594a0

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