How to define a weed continues to be a subject of discussion in magazines and newspapers. It seems to us a very simple matter. It is a term having a relation to cultivation and nothing more. The prettiest wild flower is a weed when it springs up where man does not want it. A wild carrot is a weed when it springs up in our pansy beds, or fields of Indian corn, - but when it grows in wild uncultivated places it is as much a pretty wild flower as anything else. If there were no gardens or farms there would be no weeds. A weed, therefore, is simply a plant which grows where the good cultivator does not want it, - it is a plant out of place.