ACCORDING TO SEASON 



Elecam- 

 pane and 

 chicory 



An old- 

 fashioned 

 remedy 



Huddled in hollows by the road-side are the tall 

 stout stalks, clasping woolly leaves, and great yel- 

 low disks of the elecampane, another composite. 

 Still another, which is never found far from the 

 highway, is the chicory, the charm of whose sky- 

 blue flowers is somewhat decreased by the be- 

 draggled appearance of the rest of the plant. 



Every true-born American ought to recognize 

 the opposite, widely spreading leaves, and dull, 

 whitish flower-clusters of the boneset, a plant 

 which cured, or which was supposed to cure, so 

 many of the ailments of our forefathers. Even 

 to-day the country children eye it ruefully as it 

 hangs in long dried bunches in the attic, waiting 

 to be brewed at the slightest warning into a singu- 

 larly nauseating draught. 



Nearly related to the boneset proper is the Joe- 

 Pye-weed, with tall stout stems surrounded by 

 circles of rough oblong leaves, and with intensely 

 An Indian purple-pink flowers, which are massing themselves 

 cure effectively in the low meadows. In parts of the 



country no plant does more for the beauty of the 

 landscape of late summer. It is said to have 

 taken its name from an Indian medicine-man, who 

 found it a cure for typhus fever. 



The European bellflower has become natural- 

 ized in New England, and the road sides now are 

 bright with its graceful lilac-blue spires. Another 



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