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Show DEADLY POISON IN FLOWERS Somje of the Most Beautiful Blooms Secrete Substances Fatal in Their Effects. It is surprising, and indeed unpleasant, unpleas-ant, to learn that many beautiful flowers, flow-ers, fresh and attractive, have concealed con-cealed in them deadly poisons, says the New Haven Register. In the Alps is a plant called the laburnum, which puts forth large yellow yel-low blossoms so beautiful that they have been likened to a fountain of gold dancing in the sunlight. And yet the leaves, flowers, roots, bark and seeds of this plant are exceedingly poisonous. In fact, even the grass beneath be-neath and around the blossoms is so contaminated by the poison that cattle must be kept from eating it. And can you imagine blooms so beautiful as the narcissus, hyacinth, jonquil, snow drop and foxglove secreting se-creting deadly poisons? They do. however, how-ever, and noxious liquors can be made from them that will kill human life. Even the lady's slipper, the quaint jack-in-the-pulpit and the apparently innocent little buttercup are likewise infected. Indeed, the latter is particularly partic-ularly deadly in Us poisonous secretions. secre-tions. Cattle when grazing always pass it by, for they seem to know by . instinct that it will kill them. Peonies Peo-nies and larkspurs also contain toxic fluids. |