MONKSHOOD. 
aleonitum napellus, 
T may be well at times to fienre 
and deseribe familiar flowers 
that should be rendered un- 
familiar. The traly handsome 
and very individual monkshood 
of the cottage garden is of 
so poisonous a nature, and has 
actually killed so many good 
people, that we should be 
wanting in duty to ouy readers 
did we not advise the rooting 
out of this grand herbaceous 
plant, and its consignment to 
the rubbish-heap as a plant 
that will surely offend if it 
obtains the opportunity. We 
distinctly remember several 
instances of poisoning by the 
substitution of its fleshy roots 
for horse-radish. We confess we “don’t know how” any one 
who has ever tasted horse-radish could eat the root of this 
dangerous plant in place of it, however nicely it might be 
scraped and dished ; but the fact remains and the warning 
