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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, 



