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We have just received the schedule of prizes offered by the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society for the year 1899. The aggregate sum 

 of these prizes is $8, 1 50. 00, distributed as follows : For plants $2,000. 00 ; 

 for flowers, $2,668.00; for native plants, $50.00; for fruits, $2,732.00; 

 for vegetables, $1,200.00; andfor gardens and greenhouses, $500.00. It 

 would seem that with this array of prizes the production and cultiva- 

 tion of superior flowers, fruits, vegetables, etc., would be greatly 

 stimulated, and result in much lasting good. 



In a recent issue of this journal we gave a review of Chesnut's 

 " Principal Poisonous Plants of the United States." The demand for 

 this publication has been so great that the Department of Agriculture 

 has just issued, in the form of a farmer's bulletin, a condensation of the 

 larger work, under the title of " Thirty Poisonous Plants of the United 

 States. " That is, there has been selected and in most cases illustrated, 

 the thirty most important species of plants that have been found to 

 injuriously affect either man or the domestic animals in this country. 

 As a knowledge of these plants is of so much importance, we venture 

 to give the list entire: Fly amanita {^Amanita vaiscaria), Death cup 

 {Amanita p/ialloides), American False Hellebore {Veratrum viride), 

 Pokeweed [Phytolacca decandra),!}^^^^ 1^9ir'ks'^\xr {Delphinium tricoriie), 

 Wyoming Larkspur {D. Geyeri), Purple Larkspur {D. Mensiesii), 

 Black Cherry {Pr^imis serotina). Woolly loco-weed {Astragalus mollis- 

 simus), Stemless loco-weed {Aragallus Lambertii), Rattle-box {Cro- 

 talaria sagit talis), Caper Sptirge {Euphorbia marginata), Poison Ivy 

 {Rhus radicans), Poison Oak {Rhus diversiloba), Poison Sumac {Rhus 

 vcrnix), Red Buckeye {^Esculus pavia), Water Hemlock {Cicuta 

 maculatd), Oregon Water Hemlock {C. vagans). Poison Hemlock 

 {Conium maculatum), Brood-leaf Laurel {Kalmia latifolia)^ Narrow- 

 leaf Laurel {K. angustifolia), Great Laurel {Rhododendron maximum,) 

 Staggerbush {Pieris mariana), Branch Ivy {Leucothoe Catesbcei), Jim- 

 son Weed {Datura Stramoitium), Black Night-shade {Solanum nigrum), 

 Bittersweet {Solanum dulcamara). Sneeze Weed {Helenium autuin- 

 nale) . 



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