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FA3IILIAR GARDEN FLOWESS. 



laburnum are poisouousj and occasionally prove deadly to 

 children and cattle ; therefore it is not well that a laburnum 

 should overhang a grass field, or have a place in a school- 

 garden or near any playground. Hares and rabbits are so 

 partial to this tree that it may be turned to account for the 

 l^rotection of plantations. A certain proportion of labur- 

 nums being sown, the ground-game will eat them down in 

 the course of the winter; but the trees will be renewed 

 from the roots in the spring, and thus, by supplying food at 

 times when the animals are hard-pressed, may tend to the 

 preservation of more valuable timber. 



