. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 948.—Laburnum Blossom. Fig, 949.—Arbutus unedo. Fig. 949 a,.—Maidenhair Tree. the flower-buds are frozen by a late spring frost, and in that case the trees give little, and occasionally no blossom, and my garden is then deprived of one of its greatest charms. The trees are readily raised from the black seeds, which children are sometimes prone to eat, to their own destruction, as they are intensely poisonous. A lovely evergreen tree, Arbutus unedo (fig. 949), which
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 948.—Laburnum Blossom. Fig, 949.—Arbutus unedo. Fig. 949 a,.—Maidenhair Tree. the flower-buds are frozen by a late spring frost, and in that case the trees give little, and occasionally no blossom, and my garden is then deprived of one of its greatest charms. The trees are readily raised from the black seeds, which children are sometimes prone to eat, to their own destruction, as they are intensely poisonous. A lovely evergreen tree, Arbutus unedo (fig. 949), which grows naturally in Ireland, and which produces fruit resembling strawberries, succeeds well near London, but does not prosper in my garden, on account of the frost severely injuring Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877. London, Bell and Daldy
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