Word: squill
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Arsenic, strychnine, phosphorus and thallium salts are effective rat poisons, but far too dangerous where there are children or pets. Probably the oldest of rat poisons is about the most effective and also the safest: red squill, from the ground root of a European plant. Mixed with freshly ground meat or fish baits, it is harmless to children, cats, dogs and even squirrels...
...that cold in Russia? Are their snowdrops really blue? Ours, Galanthus nivalis, are definitely white. The flowers shown by Cover Artist Boris Chaliapin are known to us as Scilla sibirica, or Siberian squill...