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Re: Seed swaps

Barbara: More about the railroads: The native plant nursery in Western North Caolina, known as We-Du, were originally forced into litigation by the railroads spraying their track bed with defoliants, chemicals that washed down into We-Du's acreage. It took them five years to get the railroads to admit liabitlity, and by that time the two owners were tired and sold the business. Peter
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Peter Loewer,  Thanks for the info about kudzu.  I had known it was imported
as an erosion control, but had assumed it was more general than you wrote.  
While railroads have been very useful their need to control costs for R.O.W.
maintenance has left some problems.  I have been told that R.O.W, s were
treated with arsenic salts to stop vegetation.  I am inclined to believe that
because I read about similar use of arsenic for domestic turfgrass infested
with broadleaf weeds in the nineteenth century.
 
Barbara
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