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BOTANICAL INDEX 
Fig. 150. 
ABUTILON A VICENNJE. Gjsrtner. 
AMERICAN JUTE. 
|^8>Sf§T is always a pleasure to know of a new industry successfully added to 
AM i already in operation in our country, more especially when it. utilizes 
those 
utilizes any 
plant or article hitherto considered worthless, and much more so when it 
If iT'* utilizes a pest or a nuisance. At the head of this page we give a figure of a 
AAE small portion of the stem, with leaves, flowers and seed-pods attached, of a 
plant much reduced in size; always cursed by the farmers in the older settled 
portions of North America. Back of the stock is also given the outline of a leaf, 
natural size, which will enable any one to identify the plant immediately. Like 
many other common plants, several local names are applied to this one, such as Indian 
mallow, Velvet leaf, Cake seed, Devil’s plant, etc. In botany it is known as Almtilon 
avicenncv, and was introduced into America from India, through England; probably, 
being considered by some of the early settlers as a good memento of home, (Eng- 
land,) and something capable of taking care of itself after once established. We 
never saw any one, however, that had any particular admiration for the plant, but 
