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Wheneverour visual orbs greet this modest
plan, with It's stem erect and very much branch
cd, irregular angled and straited, the leaves al
ternate, sessile, flat, double pintifd, Or alnlosi
mules flat, and unequally linear-we say wher-
ever our organs of observation chance upon this
plant, then does our heart leapup to the sky, as
thepoet Wordsworth said of his own, when he
saw rainbows. The merest glance
--"bripgs Us to our boyhood back
As if VIC trod its very track and felt its breath
of gladness."
For the truth is, we were raised in a section of
this fertile West where the climate was fever
and anguish and the principal product this iden-
teal Dog Fennel; and the memory of that
child Of sunshine and limestone soil, vet per
fumes our heart with its impershable fragrance.
1t is matter then of personal pride with us
this recognition of the virtues of this shrub.
Its elevation to a proper position among the
druggists herbs, touches within US domestic
chord, reaching far back into the memorable e.
ra of unsophisticated wide-turn down collars and
abbreviated roundabouts. We shall complain
no more of "star eyed Science" She is just
at last. And by whatsoever name the flower
be hereafter designated, we greet it in advance.
Whether that of AMea,,s C;tt,i7a its Latin .itle,
or ChamomHla Spuriu seu .ttetidd, as the cllss-
les termed it; or as johnny Crapeau knows it, by
the invocation of Cdmomala gudnte; or as we
have known it these long years, and as our
mothers did before us, by the various appella-
tions of May-fower, May weed, Sinking Cam
emile, Wild Camomile, Oily, Dilly-weed, Field
Weed and the last, old familiar name, Dog
Fennel
The medical properties Of this weed are those
Of an active tonic sudorifc, stimuant anodyne,
emetic and recellant. How wide the range of
its virtues; but could less be expected in view
of its almost universal diffusion? Is not Provi-
dence kind? Does not the rain fall alike upon
the just and unjust, and is it but reasonable
that Dog Fennel should spring mp on all sides
to beautify all classes and conditions?
We have anticipated something extraordinary
fre.a tE.f-. T,ir,rrt, since knew that It's
Natural Order in the vegetable world accord
ding to Linnaeus, was Composite C5rymJe tlue,
and its Ser SySt.(?) was SyRgeaesia SuperfEa.
And now that it is about taking rank, we hope
that the Chamomile which is cultivated in many
gardens, and whose odor is affected by numbers
of young ladies, will put on no more airs. 1t
has heretofore been quite aristocratic, and
frowned on the pretensions of its sister weed;
for the dog fennel belongs to its GENERA and is
more valuableby great odds.
However, we have said enough Of this aHthe-
mis- Catla, with its comic receptacle, its britly
chat, its naked see, its two pennated leaves,
and subrilate leaflets
Now, leaving badinage, let us remark that
the common weed known as Dog Fennel has
very powerful remedial qualities. Parties in
this city are engaged making decoctions and
we have now before us a bottle of the extract, |
goodfor many of theills flesh is heir to- We have |
no doupt as to the success of a gentlemen allu-
ded to. They are reposible men, and Of med
ical attainments. One Dollar per pound is
now being paid for the flower of this plaintiff
may not be long before physicians are prescri-
bling the article in question, and we quoting in
our market reports the value of Dog FenneI
flower Louisvile Courier