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RAGWEED PITH 



April 28th 



STROLLER in waste 

 places or weedy corners, 

 "^ either during the winter 

 or now, before the copses are 

 clothed in foliage, may well 

 pause a moment among the 

 skeleton thickets of the 

 great ragweed, in its 

 perfection the tallest 

 of our weeds. One 

 April, a few years since, 

 I found a stalk 

 eighteen feet four 

 inches in height 

 by actual meas- 

 urement. But it 

 ^ is not with a tape- 

 line this time that 

 I ask you to tarry. 

 "Ambrosia, "the 

 plant is called in 



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