Nux Vomica
Out in the East, past the landfill, on Almonaster Avenue, there is a nux vomica orchard. It is still in business. It has been in the same family for generations.
Have you ever seen a monkey fight a dog to the death?
When New Orleans was still a part of the Spanish Empire, Pierre Marie Le Clerc purchased a tract of swampland off what is now the crummiest …