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White Blueberries. — Apropos of the paragraph about 

 pink blueberries in the October number of this magazine, it is 

 interesting to note that in the November number of Rhodora, Mr. 

 Walter Deane has described and named several white fruited 

 varieties of the blueberry. The white berried form of Vaccinium 

 Fcnnsylvanicum is named Icucocarpum and that of V. Canadense, 

 chiococum. The commn high bush blueberry [V. corymbosom) 

 already has a black fruited variety known as atrococcum, so that 

 albino forms of this will now be known as V. corymbosum 

 atrococcum lencoccum. 



Antidote for Ivy Poisoning. — I believe in proving all 

 things in order that we may cleave to those which are good and 

 when I saw the reiteration of the statement made in Popular 

 Science, I resolved to bring the matter to a test by experiencing ivy 

 poisoning for myself. Consequently I am a wiser if not sadder 

 man. The ivy poison "took," as the doctors would say beauti- 

 fully. Two days after the application of "Rhus tox" the erup- 

 tions together with the suffering, commenced. For two days I 

 employed juice of the wild balsam or jewel weed i Impaticus 

 fulva), but the state of my arm grew steadily worse. Then I gave 

 over the experiment, satisfied of the mythology of the remedy, and 

 used camphorated sweet oil and extract of witch hazel, which were 

 effective. — E. W. V. 



Poisonous Garden Plants. — Among the garden plants 

 commonly in vogue which possess a poisonous nature botanists 

 mention the Jonquil, white Hyacinth, the Snowdrop, the Narcis- 

 sus being also particularly deadly, so much so, indeed, that to 

 chew a small scrap of one of the bulbs may result fatally, while the 

 juice of the leaves is an emetic. The berries of the yews have 

 killed many persons ; and it is pretty well known nowadays that it 

 is not safe to eat many peach pips or cherry kernels at once. The 

 lobelias are very dangerous, their juice if swallowed, producing 



