She picked up the limp sprout and squeezed her thumb up its tiny stalk. Microscopic grains oozed out. 'why, one sprig of nut-grass can ruin the whole yard.'
Opinion: Miss Maudie loves her garden alot. She could even notice a nut grass. She even swooped down a tin tube and subjected it to blasts from beneath with a poisonous substance. Miss Maudie was afraid that the nut grass would ruin her yard.
Nut grass is also called nut sedge. It have small nutlike tuber and are often troublesome weeds. It is named nut grass because of it's tuber resemble nuts but it got nothing to do with nuts. Nut grass is called 'the world's worst weed'. It is a tough competitor for nutrients and it's roots release a substance called allelopathic which is harmful to other plants. Weed pulling is not effective for nut grass as the breakage of roots resulted in leaving it's tuber underground. New plant will then emerge quickly. Most of the herbicide have no effect against nut grass tuber and roots but only kill the leaves.
Chapter6
Insect splashing against the screen were Boo Radley's insane fingers picking the wire to pieces; the chinaberry trees were malignant, hovering alive.
Opinion: It made Boo Radley more scary as his chinaberry tree was also described as malignant which was very dangerous. Not only the fruits were poisonous but the whole tree itself was harmful.
Chinaberry tree have rounded crown, measure between 7 to 12 meters in height. It's flower is pale purple and is small. It gives out a nice fragrant. It's fruit is a yellow marble size drupe. It hangs on tree all winterthen gradually wrinkled then turn white. The leaves of Chinaberry trees can grow up to 50 cm long. The leaves have been use as natural insecticide which is use to store with food. It is highly poisonous. It's fruit is also poisonous if eaten in quantity human may result in loss of appetite, vomiting, constipation or diarrhea, bloody faeces, stomach pain and other sypmtoms. It may also lead to death in 24 hours.
