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Young milkweed is better than spinach, and also makes an 

 excellent salad. Probably all the salad leaves could be 

 cooked to advantage. Rhubarb leaves and horseradish tops 

 are garden greens usually neglected most unfairly. 



Osage Orange (maclura aurantiaca) is generally supposed to 

 be poison, and is described in Webster's dictionary as "a hard 

 and inedible fruit," but I have found one kind, at least, 

 superior to quinces. 



Capsicum or red pepper, licorice (the imports of which have 

 all been in the hands of one person), camphor, belladonna, 

 henbane, and stramonium are possible fields for culture ; but 

 they are all experiments. 



If you are growing poppies for the flowers it might be worth 

 while to gather some opium, especially if the new process 

 succeeds in separating morphine directly from the plant. 



Caraway seeds, anise, coreander, and sage are common 

 garden plants that may be sold as drugs. 



