The laburnum tree, Cytisus laburnum, so common in shrubberies, is intensely poisonous.
Vallance[520] has described the symptoms observed in the poisoning of fifty-eight boys, who ate the root of an old laburnum tree, being allured by its sweet taste.
The laburnum, however, does not always have this effect, for there is a case related in the Gardeners' Chronicle, in which five cows browsed for some time on the branches and pods of an old laburnum tree that had been thrown aside.
Popham, in which ten children ate laburnum seeds; the pupils were dilated.
In Lanark a storm had blown a large laburnum tree down to the ground; it fell into a field in which some young heifers were grazing, and they began to feed on the leaves and pods.
The sweet taste of many portions of thelaburnum tree, as well as its attractive appearance, has been the cause of many accidents.
Sergeant Jenkins, however, was too loyal in his friendship to Brand to tell them exactly how it came about that Mrs. Vansittart was sheltered in Laburnum Cottage.
Mary, the maid, never ceased wondering why every other member of her sex in Laburnum Cottage should be tearful yet ridiculously happy that afternoon.
The heart wood of the laburnumis of a dark reddish-brown colour, hard and durable, and takes a good polish.
The laburnum has been called false ebony from this character of its wood.
Gerard records it as growing in his garden in 1597 under the names of anagyris, laburnum or beane trefoyle (Herball, p.
His lordship hung his saw upon a rung of the ladder, and leaning a little over took a grasp of the bough of a sweeping laburnum which overhung the road.
That laburnum has been an eyesore this many a day.
Up the wall outside a magnolia clambered; against its window a laburnum tapped and shed its golden tassels.
The laburnum was a young girl, his mother told him, with shaky golden curls; the mulberry, whose arms were propped with crutches, was her grandfather.
And she began pulling down the lowest boughs of the laburnum by swinging upon them with all her weight.
He had just found out that those lofty seats up among the golden-chains, as the children called the laburnum blossom, were not half as comfortable as they looked.
There were other smaller cracks, in which the children from time to time planted a daisy or a laburnum seed.
John was a fine handsome boy, Betty rather a thin, under-sized girl; consequently the fork between the laburnumbranches into which she fitted exactly would not admit her brother at all.
From Laburnum Lodge it took nearly twenty minutes to reach the shore, and a hill had to be climbed.
Beneath a laburnum at last They paused, and sat down on a bench in the shade, So close that he could not but hear what they said.
The so-called acacia of European gardens (Robinia Pseudacacia) and laburnum are examples of the tree habit in the Papilionatae.
A common form is illustrated by the trefoil or clovers, which have three leaflets springing from a common point (digitately trifoliate); pinnate leaves are also frequent as in laburnum and Robinia.
And it immediately struck him that his mother had often desired to know how Mrs. Adams fed her swans, and also that she had wished for some seeds from her laburnum trees.
At almost every house in Laburnum Grove a maid, in pink or lilac print, with pail and floor-cloth, was giving the steps their matutinal wash.
It was the back garden of our red-roofed villa in that suburban street, Laburnum Grove, Putney, S.
Laburnum Grove; "the insufferable young bounder" on whose account I had got into those "rows" with Aunt Anastasia.
I know the ways o' some o' these townified maids; haven't I watched 'em all down Laburnum Grove?
Laburnum Grove, isn't so bad after all, even if I do never have any parties or young friends or pretty frocks or anything that other happier, less-aristocratically connected girls look upon as a matter of course.
The Guru might still walk in from the arbor on the laburnum alley which they had not yet searched, or he might be levitating with the door key in his pocket.
None had access to the Guru but through her: all his classes were held in the smoking-parlour and he meditated only in Hamlet or in the sequestered arbour at the end of the laburnum walk.
I will begin with the famous case of Adam's laburnum or Cytisus Adami, a form or hybrid intermediate between two very distinct species, namely, C.
It is known that when a plant with variegated leaves is budded on a plain stock, the latter is sometimes affected, and it is believed by some that the laburnum has been thus affected.
A graft hybrid form between the common Laburnum and Cytisus purpureus, the result being flowers of the Laburnum, the true Cytisus purpureus, and the graft hybrid between the two.
Watereri was raised in the Knap Hill Nursery, Surrey, and is one of the most distinct and beautiful of the many forms into which the Laburnum has been sub-divided.
Adam's laburnum is now flourishing in numerous places throughout Europe, all the trees having been raised as cuttings from the original graft, which was made by inserting a bud of the purple laburnum into a stock of the yellow.
Of these cases the most celebrated are those of Adam's laburnum (Cytisus Adami) and the bizzarria orange.
Hasn't the laburnumand clematis come out in the night?
There was a little elf in the laburnum tree making yellow tassels, another was stamping out stars from a bit of cloud and throwing them on to the clematis, and a third was taking off the bracken's curl papers.
Hildegarde moved to the long rows of sweet-peas, which grew near the laburnum bower; and Rose drew a little brown note-book from her pocket, and laid it open on the table beside her.
The laburnum path was all aglow with blossoms, and the grape-walk, just beyond, made a shadowy retreat toward evening.
During the summer 1881, I saw cocoons of my own Cynthia race obtained from worms which had been reared on the laburnum tree.
Nothing more was said until they reached Laburnum Villa.
Ida had found her life at Laburnum Villa hard enough in all conscience before the night of the concert, but it became still harder after Mr. Joseph's condescending avowal of love to her and her inevitably scornful refusal.
He was outside Laburnum Villa with the velocity and force of a whirlwind, and was half-way on his road to the station before he could get his breath or regain his self-possession.
She recalled her flight from Laburnum Villa, her wandering through the streets, the crowded and noisy quay, and the strange hallucination, the vision of Stafford standing on the stern of the vessel.
Herondale, how much she had suffered at Laburnum Villa, how deep the iron of dependence had entered her soul.
It was the routine, the dull, common routine, of Laburnum Villa which irked so badly.
It was almost difficult to believe that she had ever left Herondale that Laburnum Villa was anything but a nightmare and the Herons a dismal unreality.
As Isabel had intimated, life at Laburnum Villa was not altogether hilarious.
Oh, it all seems like a dream; and I feel that at any moment I may wake and find myself at Laburnum Villa.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laburnum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ebony; oak; tree
