WINTER'S ROSETTES 



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The examples which are here pictured are not draw- 

 ings, but are reproduced from actual photographs from 

 the plants themselves, all gathered in a few moments 

 from a vacant city lot not five minutes' walk from my 

 Brooklyn home. Almost any good-sized spot of bare 

 earth will show many other forms equally interesting, 

 and occasionally so profuse as to carpet the ground. 

 The plantain and peppergrass are thus frequently prev- 

 alent. 



