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O readers of very refined tastes 
the association of a sweet- 
scented, beautifully-coloured 
flower with the coarse, rank- 
smelling, and altogether vulgar Cabbage will 
appear perfectly incongruous; but it is Nature that 
must be blamed if any fault is to be found with 
such arrangement of my material. For she has 
put the sweet-smelling Wallflower, Stock, and 
Rocket into the same family with Cabbage and 
Turnip, Radish and Horse-radish, and a host of quite 
mean and uninteresting weeds that the ordinary man 
would declare to be neither ornamental nor useful. 
There are, however, many things that help to make 
this planet habitable, but whose utility the average 
man fails to see. The weeds that are apparently 
the most worthless and least ornamental are in- 
cessantly providing the enormous volumes of oxygen 
demanded by animal life, many of them working 
through that period of the year when “the useful 
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