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ERY few of our read- 

 ^ . ^ ers will need an in- 



troduction to the net- 

 /^l^^ tie. It is, perhaps, the 



one plant which may 

 \ claim the largest num- 



ber of intimate ac- 

 quaintances. It was Dr. Cul- 

 pepper, the old-time herbal- 



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ist, I believe, who claimed, 

 ^^ J moreover, that it was one 



of the easiest of plants to 

 distinguish, in proof of which 

 he afiirmed that " it could 

 be found even on the dark- 

 est night by simply feeling 

 for it." Even those most 

 ignorant of botany, after having once "scraped 

 acquaintance," as it wiere, with the nettle, find it 

 to their interest to keep its memory green. 



