Is The Snowberry Poisonous?

It is now the white Snowberry's turn to get a bad character. The British Medical Journal says, four children "suffered considerably" from eating them. We have known some "suffer considerably" from eating oysters, and all sorts of things kill sheep, cows and every other thing.

Parallel Habits In Different Animals

It is singular how closely the habits of the reindeer and the buffalo approximate to each other. Each have their treeless prairie, but seek the woods in winter; each have their woodland species; each separate when the time comes to bring forth their young; each mass together in their annual migrations. - Page 167, Wild North Land, by W. F. Butler.

Flowering Of Amentaceous Plants

Near Philadelphia, and other parts of the Union, hazel nuts, walnuts, hickories and similar plants have the male catkins brought forth early by a few warm winter days. There is no pollen later when the female flowers open. This season both are simultaneous. A large crop of nuts is expected.

Unseasonable Texan Weather

A correspondent from Denison, under date of April 3d, says: "A recent severe freeze here has greatly damaged the prospects for a crop of peaches, plums, apricots, pears and grapes, though all are not killed, as I thought at first, after a partial examination. Apples, blackberries, and late leaf-ing-out kinds of grapes are all right. Strawberry blooms partly opened and killed. This is the severest freeze of the kind noted here for fifteen or twenty years".

The Narcissi's Fly

In the old world this insect is a great pest to the growers of this beautiful tribe of plants. This insect is known to entomologists as Merodon equestris. Dr. J. Ritzema Bos has written a complete account, which, with colored drawings, has been issued in pamphlet form by the Teylerian Institute of Haarlem. We are indebted to M. Krelage, the President of this institution, for a copy of this profound work.

Botanical Names

Lady Ruthven, a well-known English lady, protested that she had learnt but two botanical names, Aurora borealis, and Delirium tremens, and these she said, she could not point out in her whole collection. But the Sweet Williams and Primroses she knew every time.

Early Nursery In Maine

Ephraim Goodale had a nursery near where the town of Orrington now stands. Efforts to fix the exact date of its commencement have not succeeded, but it was certainly between 1804 and 1812. Pear and apple trees were the chief articles dealt in. In an advertisement without date, Mr. Goodale assures his customers that his "Pear trees are not subject to lice." The varieties he offered were all foreign.