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Self-heal, St. John’s-wort, evening primrose, viper’s bugloss, 
Indian tobacco, compass ee Renae and several other 
plants usually called weeds ore or less common along 
the paths and in the open spaces. 
W. A. Murriti 
HOW TO HAVE FRINGED GENTIANS 
Did you ever, while walking through a meadow on an October 
day, happen upon a spot where the bluest of blue flowers looked 
the Fringed Gentian grew in prolusion and it brought to my 
mind that thought of Bryant’s: 
“Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye 
A flower from its caerulean wall.” 
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d the Fringed Gentian in my 
seed to sow them in a place as near as possible like the one in 
ville, N.Y. That night a handful of the driest seed-heads were 
rubbed together between the hands, the numerous tiny seeds 
caught in paper shoe-boxes and the next morning the seeds were 
mixed with sand to make them scatter better and sown along a 
rook. 
I did not know the proper time for planting and this sowing 
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next spring did not germinate, so far as I could learn. This led 
