AGRIMONY AND OTHER WEEDS. 
In the fall of the year and 
of summer we find a great many i 
woods and along the roads, sending 
into the world by means of stout 
hooked hairs or sharp spines. 
The agrimony is one of these. It 
rather pretty plant with yellow 
it has a burr or seed pod, armed 
prickles around the waist, so to^ 
towards the end 
weeds in the 
& their seeds out 
gn hooks, or else 
is a common, 
flowers, and 
with hooked 
speak. 
through 
one will 
After a walk in the country t| 
woods and fields, in the autumn, 
be likely to find a number of little 
things clinging to one's clothes. 
Instead of merely shaking or pick- 
ing them off and throwing them 
away, carefully collect them, and 
when there is time look at them. 
You will very likely 
find yourself decorated 
with a number of differ- 
ent kinds of seeds or seed 
pods, that vainly hoped in you to find a means of 
traveling to new and better places of growth. 
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