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The Garden Club 
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branches of it. “Smelling hard,” to please 
her, he had buried his face in the branches, 
and for weeks it was an even toss-up as to 
whether he would be able to see or not. 
And I myself know how people who do 
not know it are deceived by it. One day 
this spring, for instance, I was strolling 
down a lane with a woman I know who is 
not a member of the Garden Club, and 
who reviles gardening when one has to 
do any of it oneself, and she reached 
down to pluck a shining leaf by the side 
of the way, calling my attention to its 
gloss. But I stopped her, for it was poi¬ 
son ivy! 
That is just the trouble with it; it 
shines, and colors so gorgeously in au¬ 
tumn, and sometimes is bushy instead of 
being a vine, and it looks so clean and 
thrifty; really, it is a most shifty, “cagey” 
sort of plant, resorting to everything ad¬ 
mirable, as far as appearance goes, to de¬ 
ceive. But always it has the three leaves: 
that is its hallmark. Woodbine grows in 
clusters of five, poison ivy and poison oak 
in clusters of three, and these leaves very 
often have a little ready-to-wilt droop at 
their edges that reminds me of Uriah 
JTeep somehow—a mean, little smirk of 
self-deprecation and butter-wouldn’t - 
melt-in-my-mouth ! In winter white 
ghostly berries distinguish this from harm¬ 
less trailers, and the white, drooping clus¬ 
ters of fruits of the poison sumach are 
what distinguish it also in winter from its 
benign relatives. Other sumachs’ fruits 
stand erect and are not white; beware of 
the droop and the color. 
Poison sumach is very poison, and peo¬ 
ple have died from it. It is as beautiful 
as the poison ivy — a splendid shrub any¬ 
where from 6 to 18 feet high, with great 
leaves made up of an uneven number of 
leaflets. Sometimes there are only seven, 
sometimes there are as many as thirteen, 
and of course all the way between — but 
always an uneven number. And of course 
the blossoms droop just as the fruits do 
later, so be on guard against this modest 
attitude. 
But of all things, the most to be dreaded 
—almost — is the American water hem¬ 
lock, for nothing can be done for the per¬ 
son who has eaten of this deadly herb, and 
the death it brings is frightful. It has a 
pleasant aromatic scent something like 
sweet cicely, or parsnip, or artichoke, or 
horse radish, to some nostrils. And it is 
the root that beguiles the unsuspecting 
into nibbling, owing to this sweet flavor 
so eloquently suggested. Clustered this 
root is, each individual in the group being 
from G to 3 inches long, fattest at the 
middle and tapering a little towards both 
ends. The leaves are in clusters of five or 
six and are very much saw-toothed, and 
it grows from 3 up to 7 or 8 feet high 
sometimes, with hollow smooth stems that 
are streaked with purple. It frequents 
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