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FAMILIAR WILL FLOWER*. 



some few acres of ground with it for forage, and so far 

 as we are able to trace the matter, the scheme seems 

 never to have gone beyond the theoretical stage. It is of 

 course comparatively easy for a botanist to make such a 

 suggestion, but with the farmer who is asked to forego 

 wheat or turnips for a crop of Lady's mantle the matter 

 assumes an entirely different aspect. 



The parsley-piert or Alcliemilla arvensis is an allied 

 species abundantly to be met with growing on the tops of 

 old walls, on waste ground, in gravel-pits, and the like. 

 As this plant is rarely more than four inches high, and 

 has very minute green flowers, it is at best inconspicuous, 

 though its deeply-divided leaves and general growth are 

 by no means unattractive to the lover of natural beauty. 



