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enough poison to cause serious injury. 
Gardeners working amongst the different 
varieties of Rhus should always take the 
precaution to wear leather gloves. The 
common Laburnum vulgare or golden 
chain is another deadly poison, fatal 
illness being the result of children eating 
the seeds and pods. The flowers of 
Wistaria Chinensis, and all parts of 
Daphne Mezereum, are injurious. From 
the bark of the latter is obtained a power¬ 
ful drug, much used in medicine. The 
leaves and flow-ers of Neriums are fatal to 
animal life, and the scent of the blooms, 
if much inhaled, will cause serious ill¬ 
ness. Kaltnia latifolia is one of the 
most virulent evergreen shrubs culti¬ 
vated in our gardens; the flesh of game 
birds that have fed on this shrub should 
never be partaken of. 
DWARF JAPANESE CHESTNUT TREES 
GOME twenty-five years ago, when 
^ the Japanese chestnut was intro¬ 
duced by California importers, and 
thence taken across the continent to 
New^ Jersey, it produced nothing short 
of a horticultural sensation. The im¬ 
mense size of the nut, the dw'arf habit 
of the tree, which saves so much orchard 
space, and its w’onderful precocity (since 
it often bears at two years from seed) 
w'ere hailed with glee by the commercial 
growler. At hrst only seedlings could 
be obtained, and few of these. Ihey 
brought high prices. There w^as little 
risk in using seedling stock, since ninety- 
five per cent of the trees growm from 
Japanese seed will bear good nuts, but 
varieties must be grafted. 
For fifteen years the Japanese chest¬ 
nut’s career took the ascending curve, 
but for the last ten it has been gradu¬ 
ally going dowm, until to-day, w’hile there 
is a steady demand for the trees, this 
species is no longer the favorite. The 
reason is not far to seek. Fhe quality 
of the nut is poor and the public that 
once clamored for big nuts has gone back 
to the smaller European and American 
varieties simply because they are so 
much sweeter. 
However, the amateur who wants a 
few chestnut trees merely as an interest¬ 
ing adjunct to his garden may w^ell plant 
some of the Japanese. They are inter¬ 
esting trees, clean growlers, dwarf 
enough in habit never to take up an em¬ 
barrassing amount of space, free from 
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