quack-grass

Weeds that propagate through underground stems or rhizomes like quack-grass, Johnsongrass, bittersweet, and the like are better burnt.

Organic Gardener's Composting Steve Solomon

Of all of these years of hard plowing in quack-grass, while batting

Toward the Gulf Edgar Lee Masters 1909

While the operator is busy adjusting his machine and manipulating it about the corners of the garden, the quack-grass has escaped over the fence or has gone to seed at the other end of the plantation.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

Only two clergymen accepted my offer to come and help hoe my potatoes for the privilege of using my vegetable total-depravity figure about the snake-grass, or quack-grass, as some call it; and those two did not bring hoes.

Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Various 1900

Only two clergymen accepted my offer to come and help hoe my potatoes for the privilege of using my vegetable total-depravity figure about the snake-grass, or quack-grass as some call it; and those two did not bring hoes.

My Summer in a Garden Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Only two clergymen accepted my offer to come and help hoe my potatoes for the privilege of using my vegetable total-depravity figure about the snake-grass, or quack-grass as some call it; and those two did not bring hoes.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

No sooner is one growth slain than a different and perhaps more pestiferous class rises in its place -- the worst of the Philistines being nut-grass, quack-grass, and -- direst foe of all -- wire-grass.

Success with Small Fruits Edward Payson Roe 1863