At the foot of an isolated tree, instead of the little bindweed with its white flower, may sometimes be found the beautifully climbing convolvulus major, of all the lovely colors that can be imagined.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the bindweed and the morning-glory are common examples.
Some of thebindweed family, I ought to say, are valuable in medicine.
You are quite right, it is a convolvulus, and its English name of Field Bindweed is expressive of the clinging habits of this plant; see how tightly it has wrapped itself round this tall blade of grass.
The female will often lay her eggs in a chip-box when she is thus secured after capture; the caterpillars are not difficult to rear if flower buds of the bindweed can be obtained to start them upon.
It feeds on the bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) in July, and has a second brood in September.
A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella) growing on the seacoast of Europe.
She climbs up the wire gauze and proceeds to graze among her companions on the bindweed or scabious, without troubling herself further about her eggs, whose hiding-place is only half-filled.
The sands were hard and firm, and covered in places with patches of sea holly or horned poppies and the beautiful pink bindweed growing here and there with its roots deep down among the clumps of stones.
It's quite romantic," said Belle, sitting down on a spar, and twisting some pink bindweed round her hat.
The empty cocoon of a caterpillar still hung in one corner, and Bud said that should be her hammock with a curtain made of woven yellow bindweed hung before the nook.
As I have plans for doing other things besides fighting bindweed I guess the straw cure will be tried.
There is a little patch of bindweed on the place--a memento of some chicken feed purchased a couple of winters ago--and I have been looking into the question of how to get rid of it.
As nearly as I can find out, the only sure way to kill bindweed is to build a barn with a cellar about eight feet deep on the spot and then put down a solid cement floor.
Inside the flower there are curious markings like large cream-coloured rays, and you must notice how wonderfully the flower of the Bindweed is folded when it is in bud.
When it occurs in these islands it is generally found on the small bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), but it will eat C.
The older writers on British moths called this the "Unicorn" or "Bindweed Hawk.
Of the order Convolvulaceae we shall note one species--the Small Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), so well known as a troublesome weed in cultivated fields.
Yet another contrivance to secure the same end may be observed in the Greater Bindweed and some other plants.
The Small Bindweed is, perhaps, more commonly seen in fields than in hedgerows, and is included among the field flowers on p.
It does not climb, as the Large Bindweed does, but creeps along the ground, twining round everything it meets.
We see that it is a relation of the Large Bindweed in the garden hedge.
It is of little use to dig up the ground near the bushes, for the Bindweed is twisted all among their roots.
Every now and then, Dan, who looks after the garden when he has time, cuts oft all the Bindweed close to the ground, and pulls some of it up by the roots; but fresh shoots soon appear again.
See how tightly the Bindweed stems are twisted round the boughs of this currant bush.
The Small Bindweed forms such a thick carpet over the field, and twines round the potato stems so closely, that it is often very difficult to dig up the potatoes.
There is another climbing plant in the hedge, the Large Bindweed or Convolvulus.
Some of the shoots of the Bindweed are two or three feet away from the stems of the fruit bushes, but they have grown unsupported till they could reach an overhanging bough and cling to that.
Those of the Large Bindweed are rarely anything but pure white.
Close to the hedge are some gooseberry and currant bushes, and into these the Bindweed has climbed.
The Bindweed climbs, as we see, by twisting its stem round the tree to which it clings; but though it is a climbing plant its stems can grow for a foot or more from the ground without support.
You think theBindweed and the Traveller's Joy beautiful flowers, and so they are.
At the foot of an isolated tree, instead of the little bindweed with its white flower, may sometimes be found the beautifully climbing convolvulus major, of all the lovely colours that can be imagined.
And you were born in a house among men, and I in a bindweed flower; and that is much better.
In this country various species of bees chiefly fertilize the bindweed blossoms.
A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (C.
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