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, 
ERY few of our read- 
ers will need an in- 
troduction to the net- 
tle. It is, perhaps, the 
one plant which may 
claim the largest num- 
ber of intimate ac- 
quaintances. It was Dr. Cul- 
pepper, the old-time herbal- 
ist, I believe, who claimed, 
moreover, that it was one 
of the easiest of plants to 
distinguish, in proof of which 
he affirmed that " it could 
be found even on the dark- 
est night by simply feeling 
for it." Even those most 
ignorant of botany, after having once " scraped 
acquaintance," as it were, with the nettle, find it 
to their interest to keep its memory green. 
