The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-10
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Poison Ivy grows in moist, shady
places. sometimes reaching the heignt
Of three or four feet. The leaves are
light green, oval and arranged AFTER
nately on the stem. The stems OF the
little young plants are perfectly smootn,
while the large plants are thicKiy GOV
cred with bristles or stings.
The sting of a nettle swells up ilke
a bee sting, with an intolerable item
ing. For a remedy, apply salt and water
or ammonia.
The poison ivy has three leaves, when
are broader and more sharply pointed
than the Virginia creeper. The poison
Wv sends down little roots, clinging by
these.tne fruit is a white berry, which
crows in the axis of a spray of leaves.
The Virginia creeper has five leaves.
The plant climbs up to buildings. FENCES,
trees or stumps by tendrils. The fruit
of the Virginia creeper is a broad, nat
terminal cluster of tiny purple berries
The poison of the ivy causes tiny
water bllsters. The old-fashioned rem
edy is to battle the affected parts IN a
solution Of sugar Of lead.
Children often eat young laurel, mis-
taking it for young wintergreen. Iney
are both dark brown in color, but the
laurel has larger and narrow leaves; the
stem Is thick, tender and sticky, whlie
~ .o,no wjnterereen has 4 slender. hard
and woody stem.
= tho children eat laurel. the poison
will produce collie. The best home rem
adv * me1tad lard in Tablespoonful doses
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poison baYnlock sometimes grows five
~ 81 faat bigb The stem is very light
,-;tb n,,rn1a snots. the flowers are
INTO ana umbel in shane. Th seeds
I 1arper than caravan seeds. It has
comuo,,nd ,eaves similar to caraway
1905 yv,,a carrots and wild parsnips
6alonp e. This family. Some people
claim these are not poisonous. but it is
well enough to let the roots alone and
"a pound Of cure.
Tbe wild CARROT IL similar to the poi
: bonoloek IN annearance but does not
sram nnnre man Two feet tai, wild car
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berries are in pyramid cymes, fipenlns
in July.
The sweet elder has from seven to
eleven leaflets, blossoning in July at the
time the poison elder is in fruit. The
fruit of the sweet elder is in a purple
fat cyme and ripens in the autumn.
The specie of sumach with the red
fruits in punches in non-poisonous. The
poison specie has white fruit.
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