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his stock in winter. It is said that the milk and 

 butter made from such hay is not at all suggestive 

 of the traditional Ambrosia!) It is the bane of 

 asthmatic patients, but the gardener makes short 

 work of it. It is about the only one of our weeds 

 that follows the plow and the harrow, and, except 

 that it is easily destroyed, I should suspect it to be 

 an immigrant from the Old World. Our fleabane 

 is a troublesome weed at times, but good husbandry 

 has little to dread from it. 



But all the other outlaws of the farm and garden 

 come to us from over seas; and what a long list it 

 is: 



Common thistle, 



Canada thistle, 



Burdock, 



Yellow dock, 



Wild carrot, 



Ox-eye daisy, 



Chamomile, 



Mullein, 



Dead-nettle (Lamium), 



Hemp nettle (Galeopsis), 



Elecampane, 



Plantain, 



Motherwort, 



Stramonium, 



Catnip, 



Blue-weed, 



Stick-seed, 



Hound' s-tongue, 



Henbane, 



Pigweed, 



Quitch grass, 



Gill, 



Nightshade, 



Buttercup, 



Dandelion, 



Wild mustard, 



Shepherd's purse, 



St. John's-wort, 



Chickweed, 



Purslane, 



Mallow, 



Darnel, 



Poison hemlock, 



Hop-clover, 



Yarrow, 



Wild radish, 



Wild parsnip, 



Chicory, 



Live-forever, 



Toad-flax, 



Sheep-sorrel, 



Mayweed, 



and others less noxious. To offset this list we have 

 given Europe the vilest of all weeds, a parasite that 



