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oppressive breathing of the unfortunate who are 

 victims to asthma. We need scarcely add that all 

 such remedies must be used under medical super- 

 vision. Our present duty is to commend to our 

 readers a very interesting addition to their rock- 

 garden, but we take no responsibility for little 

 nephews or grandchildren. The time, we trust, 

 will some day come when the spread of a know- 

 ledge of natural history will enable even the 

 cottager's child to recognise the difference between 

 a cherry-tree and a bush of belladonna, and to so 

 far act upon its knowledge as to render an appeal to 

 the burial club uncalled for. 



The chicory, or succory, to give it its alternative 

 though less-known name, is ordinarily a plant of the 

 chalk districts and gravelly soils, but, if we can 

 persuade it to grow, it should certainly find a place 

 in our rock-garden, its long lines of pale lilac-blue 

 composite flowers being very charming, while its 

 bold, upright growth gives it distinction amongst its 

 fellows. There is, besides, a distinctly practical 

 value in its cultivation, if there be any truth in the 

 old idea that " the body anoynted with the iuyce of 

 Chicory is very available to obtain the fauour of 

 great persons." l In Tusser's " Fiue Hundred 

 Pointes of Good Husbandrie " we note that suckerie 

 is included amongst the desirable "seedes and 

 herbes for the kitchen," together with " burrage, 

 1 Buttes, " Dyets Dry Dinner/' 1599. 



