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You may pull a piece of it up, and the taste will 

 soon show what it is. 



Angelica and Elecampane make excellent sweet- 

 meats. The former is a stately plant about four to 

 six feet in height, stem and leaves covered with a 

 plum-Uke bloom. Naturally it loves to grow by 

 ruiming water, but puts up with ordinary garden 

 soil quite happily. Seeds of Angelica should be 

 sown as soon as ripe. If the seed is not saved, the 

 plant may be cut do^Mi in May, and the stock \sill 

 send out side-shoots ; by repeating the process the 

 same plant may be long continued. Angelica is a 

 great ornament to the garden, and it is really inter- 

 esting to cut a hollow stalk of it, trim it a little, and 

 behold a sweet green stick of Angelica, such as is 

 usually met with in ice-puddings. 



Elecampane grows into a tall, stout, downy plant, 

 with very large leaves and bright yellow flowers, 

 something like Sunflowers. The candy that is 

 made of it is quite out of fashion now, yet, besides 

 being of a pleasant taste, it is good for asthma, and 

 some of the properties of Elecampane are said to be 

 highly antagonistic to consumption. Several pretty 

 fables account for its Latin name, Helenium. One 

 is that Helen's hands were full of it when Paris 

 carried her away ; another, that it sprang fi'oni 



