AN interlude: some garden weeds 



the dainty, exasperating carpet weed, shepherd's 

 purse, the thistle (it will be an English or Canadian 

 or even Russian specimen, not our good American, 

 which clings to roadside, swamp and wood), the 

 bindweed (one of the wild morning glories), the 

 wild cucumber (an excellent friend as a cover vine 



Leaf, Spike and Root of Broad-leaved Dock 



if its seed pods be picked before they ripen). Then 

 there is the live-forever, out of whose thick leaves 

 children make bags, by slowly and carefully rub- 

 bing the tough skin until it loosens and forms a 

 pouch. The jimson weed* with its large, curious 



♦ It is one of the night-shade family as are both black night- 

 shade, a garden weed, and the common white potato, and is classed 



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