A BUNCH OF HERBS 



weeds that follows the plow and the har- 

 row, and, except that it is easily destroyed, I 

 should suspect it to be an immigrant from 

 the Old World. Our fleabane is a trouble- 

 some 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 sucks up human blood, to- 



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