Stiles/Akin
Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Apr 1, 2016
- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia
Out of curiosity I looked it up. It says in large quantities it's toxic to humans but not to birds which eat them.Arent China Berrys poisonous? Or is that an old wives tale?
I didn’t realize the China Berry tree was growing in the US that far back, thinking it was a 20th century import.
Where I grew up it was considered undesirable, very brittle with messy berries. You saw them a lot around black cabins, they grew quickly and provided much needed shade.
Donna, I’ll bet the writer meant medicinal instead of mechanical!
Out of curiosity I looked it up. It says in large quantities it's toxic to humans but not to birds which eat them.
Pretty sure they meant to say mechanical and not medical. You need to remember that in 1863 printing was a mechanical process and the typeset had to be arranged by hand. This was obviously a type of what we would now call a denatured alcohol.I’ll bet the writer meant medicinal instead of mechanical!
Small houses in the rural South occupied by African Americans, an extremely common sight.What are black cabins?