202 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 



centre with the shrub. When standing lost in admiration of 

 it, he found himself wounded first on the cheek and then in 

 the eye. In alarm he looked about for a hidden adversary and 

 discovered it was the seeds of the witch-hazel which were 

 bursting out from their coverings and shooting in all directions, 

 he noticed to a distance of forty feet. 



Again there is supposed to be some latent mysterious power 

 about the twigs, which in remote parts of the country are still 

 used as divining rods and to locate the presence of water 

 underground. We feel a little more comfortable about the 

 shrub when we remember that the extract from it is very do- 

 mestic. In fact, we are occasionally informed that no household 

 without it can possibly exist. 



