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our numerous bee stings to draw out the poison. It is 

 easily raised from seed. 



Camomile, Anthemis nobilis, is not very pretty, but 

 it has so many virtues that it must needs be given a 

 prominent place. It is called the "plant physician," 

 and not only gives aid to frail humanity in distress, but 

 to its brothers and sisters of the plant world. It is said 

 that if Camomile is placed near any weak or ailing plant 

 it at once revives. Besides this, it quiets the baby, 

 breaks up colds, drives away insects, secures us against 

 bad dreams if placed beneath the pillow, and its flower 

 heads are made into a valuable medicine in use at the 

 present day. It is easily raised from seed, but may 

 usually be found growing wild. 



Germander, Teucrium Chamaedrys, is a nice little 

 woody plant with rose-coloured blossoms and pleas- 

 antly scented foliage. In Elizabethan days it was 

 chiefly used to edge the quaint garden "Knottes," and 

 also, on account of its purifying redolence, as a "strew- 

 ing herb." It blooms late in the summer and seems 

 happy anywhere in the sunshine. Pot Marjoram is one 

 of the prettiest plants in the herb garden. It is semi- 

 prostrate in growth, and the graceful branches terminate 

 in flat heads of soft pink flowers. The whole plant is 

 deliciously sweet and one wants a lot of it. Oil of 

 Marjoram is comforting to stiff joints, and it was, in the 

 old days, greatly in demand in making sweet bags, sweet 

 powders, and sweet washing waters all so pleasant to 



