AUGUST. 16X 



the garden lawn be carefully cut, it will spring 

 up there beside the daisy ; for it commonly 

 spangles the short grass, or turf, of that and 

 similar spots. 



When the Almighty, in his solemn arguings 

 with Job, reproved him for presumption, he 

 asked, " Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom ?" 

 and the unerring instinct which guides that 

 strong and quick-sighted bird to his prey is 

 a striking proof of the skill and power of the 

 All-wise and All-powerful. The old tradition, 

 that the hawk fed upon the hawkweed, and led 

 her young ones early to eat this plant, that, by 

 its juices, they might gain acuteness of vision, 

 was believed, some centuries since, not only in 

 our land, but throughout Europe ; for the po- 

 pular name of this liower in France is L'Ejter- 

 vicre, and the Germans call it Ilahichts kraut. 

 An American species of hawkweed is considered 

 to possess great medicinal virtues, and com- 

 monly called, in America, poor Robin's plantain. 



Several kinds of camomile are also blooming 

 now. All the common sorts of this flower 

 have yellow disks and white rays ; but the ox- 

 eye camomile (Anthemis tinctoria) is wholly 

 yellow. The plant which jjroduces the fra- 

 grant flower sold by the druggists as a tonic 

 is a native of Britain. It is the Anthemis no- 

 bilis, and is often cultivated for the purposes 

 of commerce. The bed of camomile is fre- 

 quently found in the cottage garden, and most 

 fullv do the villagers believe the old English 

 proverb : " Camomile, the oftencr it is trodden 



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