. A tour round my garden . Natural history. LETTER XXXVI. FENNEL—THE ENCROACHING VISITOR. Fennel grows to the height of six feet, with branches of bright green, and leaves so minute and numerous as to make it resemble an ostrich feather. Pliny pretends that serpents are particularly partial to this plant, and that they have good reasons for being so. It restores them to youth, and recovers their dimmed sight, which is for them a matter of great importance, if we are to believe, as certain naturalists assert, that the serpent fascinates various reptiles and even birds with its look, and forces
. A tour round my garden . Natural history. LETTER XXXVI. FENNEL—THE ENCROACHING VISITOR. Fennel grows to the height of six feet, with branches of bright green, and leaves so minute and numerous as to make it resemble an ostrich feather. Pliny pretends that serpents are particularly partial to this plant, and that they have good reasons for being so. It restores them to youth, and recovers their dimmed sight, which is for them a matter of great importance, if we are to believe, as certain naturalists assert, that the serpent fascinates various reptiles and even birds with its look, and forces them to come to it by an invincible magnetic power. Physicians, for a long time, applied the roots of fennel pounded with honey to the bites of mad dogs. At the end of three or four hundred years it was discovered that this had never cured anybody. As handsome in its appearance and yielding a much more agreeable odour, the Angelica grows on the banks of rivulets. The Angelica serves as an asylum and as food for the cater- pillar of the beautiful butterfly, called Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Karr, Alphonse, 1808-1890; Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. London : F. Warne ; New York : Scribner, Welford and Armstrong
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