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ERY few of our read- 

 \/] ■', ' ^^wv)"*^ ¥» ^^^ '^''^ need an in- 

 ^ f \~^wra«h^W "-J,' troduction to the net- 

 tle. It is, perhaps, the 

 one plant which may 

 claim the largest num- 

 ber of intimate ac- 

 quaintances. It was Dr. Cul- 

 pepper, the old-time herbal- 

 ist, I believe, who claimed, 

 moreover, that it was one 

 of the easiest of plants to 

 distinguish, in proof of which 

 he affirmed that " it could 

 be found even on the dark- 

 est night by simply feeling 

 for it." Even those most 

 ignorant of botany, after having once " scraped 

 acquaintance," as it were, with the nettle, find it 

 to their interest to keep its memory green. 



