CHAPTER VIII 



The dwale, or deadly nightshade The mission of Atropos 

 -Chicory The " Historia Mundi " of Pliny Arab 

 lore Lady's-mantle The tuberous comfrey Purple 

 comfrey The yellow iris Cornflower The gentians 

 Edelweiss Chalet-made specimens Soldanella Grim 

 the Collier The value of scientific nomenclature The 

 two Claytonias u Botanical Magazine " of Curtis 

 Crimson rest-harrow The various bell-flowers The 

 not-to-be-improved-on harebell Our pinks Maiden 

 pink Cheddar pink Ruskin's Society of St. George- 

 Glacier pink Cerastium gibraltaicum Fool's parsley 

 How distinguished from the gardener's parsley. 



THE dwale, or deadly nightshade, is a plant 

 of striking appearance, which is abundantly 

 worth growing from its beauty and interest, 

 but which carries swift death in its unwise use. 

 No doubt this consideration has frequently had 

 great weight, and has led to the plant being 

 destroyed where it may probably have at one time 

 grown in considerable abundance. 1 It is found 



1 u The green leaues of deadly Nightshade may with great 

 aduice be vsed, but if you will follow my counsell deale not 

 with the same in any case, and banish it from your gardens, 



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