Its relative, the feverfew, is botan- 

 ically Chrysanthemum Parthenium, 

 and was originally a European species 

 which has become naturalised in this 

 country. Its first use was for medicinal 

 purposes, and it made a terribly bitter 

 tea, which was liberally bestowed upon 

 persons suflFering from fevers. 



The camomile, which looks much 

 like small daisies, is another of these 

 plants, which, travelling from Europe 

 by devious ways, has become a settled 

 resident here, as well as in Asia, Africa, 

 and Australia. 



It is the garden camomile which 

 furnishes the aromatic flowers that 

 were so frequently used for a blood 

 purifier and tonic, in those days when 

 our grandmothers devoted a portion 

 of each garden patch for medicines 

 and simples. 



It was as a valuable adjunct to the 

 medicine garden that the chrysanthe- 

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