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Page iii - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 176 - ... and even goats have died from eating the leaves, and in May, 1895, a monkey was killed at the National Zoological Park at Washington, DC, by eating a few flowers and leaves offered to it by a visitor. Deer and grouse are said to be immune, and it is claimed that their flesh, especially that of the ruffed grouse, is poisonous when they have fed upon it. It is stated that chickens have been poisoned by eating the vomited matter from poisoned animals.
Page 176 - A fine shrub, usually 4 to 8, but sometimes 30 to 40 feet high. It has thick, flat, and shining leaves, showy clusters of peculiarly shaped, viscid, and mostly inodorous pink flowers, which appear in May and June, and a globular, viscid, dry, and inedible fruit. It grows abundantly on rocky hillsides, in cattle ranges, and on mountain slopes up to 3,000 or 4,000 feet, from Connecticut to eastern Ohio and along the Alleghenies to Georgia and Alabama; less abundantly in the New England and Southern...
Page 176 - ... is, in man, severe pain in the head, an increased tendency to perspire, and often a peculiar tingling sensation in the skin throughout the entire body. Vomiting is very copiously produced, and consequently the effects are generally less severe than in animals. The broad-leaf laurel is typical in its effects of a half dozen or more native species of the heath family. They are all poisonous in the same way, because they all contain the same toxic or poisonous substance, known as andromedotoxin....
Page 176 - Like the preceding, but smaller, only 2 to 4 feet high, with smaller, thinner, and narrower leaves, and smaller flowers, clustered, not at the extreme end of the stem, but at the base of the fresh shoots. It is abundant at low altitudes in both dry and wet soils from Maine to New Jersey; less abundant westward throughout the Great Lakes region and southward to Tennessee and South Carolina.
Page 67 - It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was brought to Holland, and in 1692 it was cultivated at Hampton court. This plant is propagated by offsets, taken at the latter end of June, planted in separate pots, with light kitchen-garden earth, and placed in a shady situation.
Page 192 - The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed, and thanks voted for donations to the library, the following gentlemen were elected members of the Society, viz.
Page 106 - Manipur, at an altitude of 0,000 feet, by Dr. Watt, At first there seemed hopes that this fine climber would succeed on walls, &c., in sheltered places in Britain, but although several plants at Kew and elsewhere withstood — with comparatively little protection— the severe winter of 1890-1, that of 1892-3 killed all of them outright. At Kew it grows vigorously under glass, bur, so far, has not flowered.
Page 176 - ... it is fed to them. In these experiments the chickens were killed with, chloroform after dosing for a few days. The entrails were then cast aside, and the well-boiled and well-cleansed meat was fed to cats with nearly fatal results. The honey derived from the nectar of the flower appears to be poisonous under some conditions. Cases of human poisoning occur indirectly in the ways indicated above; directly by overdoses, or improper use in domestic medicine, probably by the secret and criminal use...
Page 176 - ... at mouth, grating of teeth, irregular breathing, partial or complete loss of sight and feeling, dizziness, inability to stand, extreme drowsiness, stupor, and death. The irregularity of the respiration is most characteristic, being present throughout the main part of the attack. In addition to most of the above effects there is, in man, severe pain in the head, an increased tendency to perspire, and often a peculiar tingling sensation in the skin throughout the entire body. Vomiting is very copiously...