POISONOUS PLANTS 



IN FIELD AND GARDEN 



INTRODUCTION 



The number of children who are made more 

 or less ill by eating berries and leaves, etc., which 

 they find in the hedges, is undoubtedly very con- 

 siderable every year ; but the number of fatal 

 results is probably very small. There is no doubt 

 that mishaps might be considerably reduced if 

 our country clergy, school- masters, and school- 

 mistresses, knew something about wild flowers, 

 CO and could distinguish between poisonous and 

 harmless plants. 



It is the object of this book to enumerate and 



^T) describe such of our common wild plants, as well 



D^ as some frequently cultivated, which are at all 



likely to prove harmful to our little ones ; who are 



only too apt to put everything which appears 



attractive into their mouths. 



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