It is good fever medicine." "Is it poison ?" "No.

I didn't set anything acutely poisonous in your hedge.

I wanted it to be a mass of bloom you were free to cut for the cabin all spring, an attraction to birds in summer, and bright with colour in winter.

To draw the feathered tribe, I planted alder, wild cherry, and grape-vines.
This is cherry.

The bark is almost as beautiful as birch.