EXTRACTS FROM A CATECHISM OF COTTAGE GARDENING. 4*23 
familiar with their forms, while they receive advice to be aware of their 
bad effects. The following are the most common, viz.:— 
f< Bryony grows in hedges; it has long climbing stems, greenish- 
white flowers, succeeded by little bunches of red berries, hanging con¬ 
spicuously after the leaves have fallen. The root is a large tuber, 
containing dangerous qualities. 
White and black, and all other species of Hellebore , are garden 
plants, and accounted poisonous. 
“ Cuckoo Pint, or ‘ Lords and Ladies,’ grow under every hedge; 
their spikes of red berries are apt to attract the notice of children. 
“ Meadow Anemone grows in damp and shady places; the flowers 
are pretty, and often in the hands of children. 
“ Spurge. Two or three sorts grow wild; they are known by their 
milk-like juice. 
“ Butter-cups, so plentiful in meadows and pastures, have an 
extremely acrid quality, which renders them dangerous. 
Meadow Narcissus is common in some places: the bulbs should 
not be played with by children. 
“ Henbane grows in lanes and waste ground; it has a nauseous scent, 
and thereby easily detected. 
Aconitum is cultivated in gardens for its flowers, commonly called 
monkshood : is very dangerous. 
“ Foxglove grows on every hedge-bank, having tall spikes of purple 
flowers : it contains noxious qualities. 
“ Dwale, or Deadly Nightshade, grows in shady waste ground : the 
berries are like small purple cherries, and too inviting to children. 
This plant should be eradicated from about every village. 
“ Bitter-Sweet grows in hedges—has flowers exactly like those of the 
potato, only much smaller: these are succeeded by bunches of red 
berries—dangerous. 
“ Fool’s Parsley grows on the sides of ditches, and in meadows; it 
resembles common parsley, but the scent is very different. 
“ Hemlock is found in hedges, or in waste corners behind farm¬ 
houses : its purple-spotted stem, much-divided leaves, and nauseous 
scent, easily point it out. 
“ Besides the foregoing, there are the Thorn-Apptle, or Stramonium ; 
the Colchicum, or Meadow Saffron ; and all kinds of Toadstools should 
be proscribed, except for medical purposes administered by medical men. 
Children should also know that the berries of the Wood-Laurel are 
dangerous, and that the Yew-tree is poisonous to cattle not used to it, 
more especially if they eat the clippings of yew-hedges thrown out of a 
garden. 
