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Updated: June 28, 2025
"Now, my great comfort, my only McLane! do not idealize this forester as of any beginning whatsoever. It is all wrong. Thousands of convicts were exported to Chesapeake Bay from the slums of London, Bristol, Glasgow, and other places, and propagated here like the pokeweed.
Pokeweed comes under the heading of poisonous plants though its berries are eaten by birds, and its young shoots are said to be almost equal in flavor, and quite as wholesome, as asparagus. It seems to be the large perennial root that holds the poison, though some authorities claim that the poison permeates the entire plant to a certain extent.
This was all new to Louise, and she listened eagerly, thinking to herself that she would color the faded quilts on her own bed; and that another summer she would gather a good supply of the roots and plants of which Mrs. Scott spoke. "The pokeweed berries will color a good red," continued Mrs. Scott; "but for scarlet we must use the dogwood roots." Then Mrs.
Take a quantity of the pokeweed, any time in summer, pound it, press out the juice, strain it into a pewter dish, and set it in the sun until it acquires the consistency of salve; then put it into an earthen mug, add to it water and beeswax sufficient to make an ointment of common consistency. Simmer the whole over a fire till thoroughly mixed; when cold, it is ready for use.
This must not be mistaken for the high-bush blueberry, for to eat the fruit would be most dangerous. The antidotes for nightshade poison are emetics, cathartics, and stimulants. The poison should be thrown off the stomach first, then strong coffee be given as a stimulant. =Pokeweed, Pigeonberry=
VIRGINIAN POKEWEED. The leaves and berries produce a beautiful rose-colour, but it is very fugacious. PRUNUS domestica. PLUM. The bark is used by the country people to dye cloth yellow. PYRUS Malus. APPLE,-The bark of this plant, also, produces a yellow colour. QUERCUS Robur. OAK. The juice of the oak mixed with vitriol forms a black ink; the galls ar employed for the same purpose.
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