Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — Nature's Guard. [ARTICLE]

Nature's Guard.

In South Africa, we are told, the geranium lias the reputation of being a guard against snakes, which avoid the plant as though it were potaoaoaa, writes W. \Y. Long. We are reminded that, though the flowers of tb* geranium are scentless, the leave* eon tain a quantity of volatile oU, with more or less pungent odors; sad It ia stated that uo snake will come near a bed of the flowers. A missionary in South Africa has surrounded bis house with a garden of geranium* with the result that it Is never visited by these :iuwelcome intruders. The disc ivcry of thla property in the geranium is attributed to the Kafirs.