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economic plants, such as the carrot, parsnip, celery and 
caraway, all of which may be found at the economic garden; 
lovage, a common European plant, is shown, and the rattle- 
snake-master, from the eastern United States; the wild 
carrot and the golden meadow parsnip also belong here. 
To the primrose family, located at the base of the ridge a 
little beyond the carrot family, belong the primroses (Prim- 
ula), many of which are natives of Europe; here we find the 
common European primrose, the cowslip and others; the 
moneywort, a native of Europe, but introduced into many 
places in this country, sends its long creeping stem all over 
the bed—this is sometimes known as creeping Charlie; the 
fringed loosestrife, from North America, is also here, as is 
the clethra-like loosestrife, from Japan, with its racemes of 
white flowers. Between the two beds devoted to the carrot 
family, and a little beyond, is the plumbago family, to 
which belongs the common thrift of Europe; there are 
several other thrifts here also, as well as the statices or 
sea-lavenders, in several species. The bed allotted to the 
gentian family may be found a little beyond the plumbago 
family; among them is the blind gentian, a native of the 
United States. In the brook, just beyond the little stone 
bridge, may be found the buck-bean family; here are shown 
the water-snowflake, common in tropical regions, and the 
water-lily floating heart, native in Europe and northern 
Asia. 
Just beyond the left-hand bed devoted to the carrot 
family is the dogbane family; the willow-leaved amsonia, 
from the central and southeastern United States, and the 
broad-leaved amsonia, from the central and eastern United 
States, are conspicuous objects here. Beyond this are 
two beds of the milkweed family and among its representa- 
tives are the common milkweed of our roadsides, the hairy 
milkweed and the swamp milkweed; the swallowworts also 
belong here and are illustrated by several species. In the 
morning-glory family, located to the right of the above, 
are the small bind-weed, of northern Europe and Asia, 
