Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 33
that hold them burst open suddenly, andscatter them far and wide, like shot from a tiny cannon. For this reason the European ing animals to do hisjewel-weed is known as Noli-me-tangere, which work for him.is Latin for Touch me not. The garden But the most re-balsam, or ladys-slipper, a relative of… … seed in the same fashion is thewitch-hazel, a shrub sometimesplanted on lawns, and growingwild along brooks and on hill-sides. The witch-hazel blos-soms in October or November,when most other plants aredead. Often its own leaveshave fallen when it begins tounfold its strap-shaped, crinkledyellow…
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