Such dry waste places send up plants to flower, such as charlock and poppy, quicker than happens in better soil, but they do not reach nearly the height or size. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
UC Riverside scientists studying the genetic makeup of wild radishes in California have determined that the California wild radish is descended from hybrids between two species: cultivated radish and the weed, jointed charlock. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He decided to pick it as a centerpiece for his bouquet of marguerites, charlock and cornflowers. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I'd found a late patch of charlock near the stream, leaves wilting and brown around the edges, and had brought back a handful in my pocket, along with a few juniper berries picked during a stop earlier in the day. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)
The oily burst of flavor sent fumes up the back of my throat that made my eyes water, but they did cleanse my tongue of the taste of grease and scorch, and would, with the charlock leaves, maybe be sufficient to ward off scurvy. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)
He also mentions, as a more or less remarkable fact, "that a house, which was known to have existed for two hundred years, was pulled down, and, no sooner was the surface soil exposed to the influence of light and moisture, than it became covered with a crop of wild-mustard or charlock." ❋ R. W. Wright (N/A)
So, too, while in our meadows we purposely propagate tender fodder plants, like grasses and clovers, we find on the margins of our pastures and by our roadsides only protected species; such as thistles, houndstongue, cuckoo-pint, charlock, nettles ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
And he instances these facts to show that the seeds of this charlock, and these dyke plants, had lain dormant in the soil from the time the dykes were built, and the house erected. ❋ R. W. Wright (N/A)
And the year in which they brought it no more, two Sulphurs, with dresses like sunlight on a charlock-field, came with the rest to the moon-daisies 'Feast; because not once in all their years of marriage had the perfect rose been lacking. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Several kinds of mustard-plant grow in the Holy Land, either wild, as the charlock, Sinapis arvensis, and the white mustard, S. Alba, or cultivated, as S. nigra, which last seems the one intended in the Gospel. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
And he went off into technicalities concerning the abundance of charlock on the arable land of Pym. ❋ Unknown (1910)
One species of charlock has been known to supplant another species; and so in other cases. ❋ Unknown (1909)
The Orderly jumped up and ran to the stove where, in one of the niches, stood the bowl of charlock hearts, a wild green that tastes exactly like tender sprouts. ❋ Lillian Elizabeth Roy (1900)
Ye mid zell my favorite heifer, ye mid let the charlock grow, ❋ Unknown (1898)
Some were very variable, as for instance, the jointed charlock ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)
For example, turnip-fly (which is not an aphis, but a small beetle) always begins its ravages (as Miss Ormerod has abundantly shown) upon a plot of charlock, and then spreads from patches of that weed to the neighbouring turnips, which are slightly diverse members of the same genus. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
He told us he was out for a holiday, and saw some men hoeing in a field -- 'Hoeing the charlock,' he said to himself; but when he came nearer he found they were hoeing turnips -- hoeing up the poor plants themselves, which lay dying all around; hoeing them up to let the other plants have room to grow. ❋ Mark Rutherford (1872)
It is like the yellow charlock in a field, which seems only to spread in consequence of attempts to get rid of it -- as the rough rhyme says; 'One year's seeding, seven years' weeding '-- and more at the end of the time than at the beginning. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
When I unpacked our [dishes] this morning for breakfast, there was still charlock in them from [last nights] [dinnner]. ❋ Concierge (2005)