tine Cornell University
(1528.)
Bacon,
Lord.
Supplement). In the
the
Fifteenth
Century."
Oxford,
most
useful
work
for
students
of
Evelyn.
Englishwoman's
Magazine.
1847.
Evelyn,/.
and the
and
other
works.
Johnson,
"Gardener's
Britain."
S.P.C.K.
Pratt,
we look with
find some
or
border
in
his
garden
set
matter
collected
during
my
residence
in
the
the publication
interesting
to
to
I
and to
useful
work.
title
of
of
these
works,
name
of
a
particular
unable to verify the
us still. have
sometimes
appear
by
employed
the
oyle
becomes
white
the
flowers
or
and
the
thime
leaf
one occasion
need had passed
also
mention
that
1882
said
I
have
quoted
ing
a
Rev.
H.
Ella-
combe
has
kindly
seen the
campaign, then
of
paying
have set us an
custom, so
the
made by
derivations
proposed.
Neither
do
I
Max
open
Wright
of
for
1874,
concerning
no
greens
will
shoot
out
around
the
That
this
is
a
piece
of
super-
who
is
possessed
of
a
piece
of
ground
has ever since
reminds
us
St.
John.
Roman
of
herbs
a
certain
insect
{Coccus
Polonicci)
foul
are
embroidered
Plantagenet
family,
just
as
the
Dragon
is
in
China
to
literary
guilds
of
Antwerp
arrived
Lavender Bloom.
Chamber. The first wife
against
serpents
us
with
Religions in the
Mary issuing out of a Lily was
discovered
in
suddenly
the
Lily
on
use.
The
when
the
Heir
Apparent
was
married
;
sleek and
other pur-
believed that the
teething fits
common
Elder,
only
the
wild
stition,
and
not come
whose
faith
in
the
self
away. It
is, however,
but fair
to say,
drink,
a
man
answer
would
be,
and
scattered
fairies'
butter
which
we
in his
in
some
places
Within one of
A
exactly in
the form
foxglove
Let
me
here
whose
hautboys
gambols
up without sowing
do
transformed
into
fairies
by
correcting
her
of
his
retinue
to bear
him away
Bluebell, where
to
find
we
presume
that
the
appearance
of
a
plant
a proper covering;
neighbourhood
of
"
was
dedicated
to
the
and
plants,
its
own
fairy
garland
which they
that
in
Denmark,
dow
n
the
a
mysterious
history-
Thorpe
mentions
?
which they dwell.
from
an
that
the
Elder
that
that
of
the
upon
husband
to
health.
The
Grund to
the crim-
is
a
natural
lie
on account of
"
"are said to
queen
you see
many
places
applied
to
the
Gooseberry,
now,
while
their
Gar-
land
is
by
no
means
enough
has
point to
flame
the boat sit the
The
the tairy
we come
'toad-
stools
elves
same."
TOAD-STOOL
[Agcirlcus
cissanus),
box, or Old Man's
Snuff-box; where the name
the king
mere
corruption
of
Puck
or
Pouk.
by someone, and
underground.
So
the
tale
of
; in
German
stem
—which
The
once
related
of October is
the devil
to mark
l^nown by
the name of
of the
the
fairies
or
pixies
laid
claim
to
a
certain
which grew
share of the
minds
or house-spirit
their
fields,
and
in
drinking
to wander about as
food,
be
capable'
of
flight,
existence
of
Evil
spirits.
Yet
to
the
Globe
flower
(^Trollius
is
made
that
the
origin
of
the
must
needs
more
i
1
mediately
before
us,
of
Sweden,
Denmark,
following,
referring
the
reader
to
Scabious, of
Anemone is
name
these
various
superstitions
the
notions
concerning
be
sheaves
behind
the
legged
creatures,
similar
to
the
found many
Gubernatis
remarks,
Primerole
these
same
plants
is
of its
as his Posy.
to excite
the
Mandrake
to
a
plant
{Bidens
pilosd)
which
the
stress above, as
traces
pine-
apple
will
"
us
the same county.
is
in
Middle-
sex
actually
called
Devil's
Daisy.
We
it
is
ing to
and
rose-bushes,
which
Evil
One.
England to frighten
insect.
by means
Middle
Ages
John's
Day
has
come
to
be
popularly
for
the
destruction
of
evil,
and
be
may
preventative
against
thresholds
to
keep
by
the
them
was' once a Walnut,
time before
recently described
euphemism.
Thus
we
have,
in
addition
to
the
In
section
; d,
fruit
Virgin's
Bower,
and
the
reality
any
relation
fitting
Egypt,
source
of
Virgin's
Bower
before
men
to
impress
by
which
the
days
of
the
Thursday
after
Thor,
the
god
of
War and Thunder, and Friday after Freyja, with whom we are
now more immediately
name
Friday
i.e.,
Frey-
are not
confined to
England, but
some-
money
a
purse
is
also
provided
instance,
in
as the
Devonshire
lore,
I
find,
Ladie
down at
and
in
Germany
that
of
Marienmantel,
or
known
amongst
ourselves.
The
latter
half
under
plant
Dodder,
whilst
One, is
As
her
larger
countries,
coverings.
In
on
a
wooden
bench
or
bedstead,
upon
which
Bedstraw,
which
of
the
we
know
Lady's
Looking-glass.
Another
article,
useful
as
well
seems to
have been
which the
"
Lady's
to
object
corrupted
as bears
(Carduus
Marianus).
Some
says one scholar
it
must
be
admitted
the
Mother
of
our
Saviour,
a
idea that she has
Thus
Shakspere,
speaking
probably
to
have
intimately associated
been
following
rhyme:
Thy true name it is Yarrow
Now who my
the
servants
make
do
but
subject
have
been
Bertha entices some
enchanted caitle.
favoured
Prim-
roses,
in
respects to be
Lady's
Hand,
Mary's
Hand,
etc.
It
will
be
use.
On
the
Continent
any
or
all
kinds
of
spring
flowers
church.'
But
the
date
of
the
foundation
principal
In
France
we
and
de Notre
on the
life of
increased,
and
the
Hemp Agrimony
devoted to the
to
but
very
connected
with
this
many
flowers
doubtless
still
remain
wreaths
of
all
wliilst
reader's lot
amiable family, provided
our wedding breakfast,
moon
by
throwing
shall
have been largely used in connection with weddings in our
own
land,
and
wedding day a
value she set
us
with
weddings.
information respecting Orange
where
they
were
ceeded,
but
preserved elsewhere,
it is
etymology)
at
Kenilworth
to
Rosemary
respecting
ing Hazel torches
tenderest
form
is
torn
and
bridegroom
stands,
on
the
day
of
the
affairs
of the
be observed
to
employ
to
this
custom,
but
to
some
other
person
does
way to church,
century
"
braine,
strengtheneth
told us
so, but
as it
men,"
with
used
bells,
And now of death, and now of love it tells."
These
In the
be
going."
intended
bride-
a
Elsewhere
a
that
parts
from a
case
fresh-gathered.
In
the
Eastern
Church,
have
our
ancestors
her
own
choice
land
island
assembled
frequently
thing.
already been
it
but
many
for
the
bride
to
place
Flax
in
rated with
garlands, the
one
of
the
infer
Nuts
aimorig
the
boys,
by
which
most famous
Orpine plants
joined by
be
allowed
too
hasty
Rosemary and
and
this
;
in
a
manner
for
gaining
the
desired
information.
We
must
observe,
however,
that
the
two
addressed by
Arctic air,
hoof descends.
the
"
the mysterious
the name of the
fact of its
gladsome.
Three
in sight.
As doe
In the Churchwardens' Accounts
very
sweete
smell,
as
coole,
fair of
tury,
filling
a
window
in
of St.
Remi at
man it will
sink. It is
there
be ;
for
the
whole
luminous
and
bright.
The
St.
John's
Fires
St.
John's
The
flower
which
generally
enough,
the
native
country
of
this
Lily
the
not
to
St
Michael,
one time to
:
"
some
time
of
it,
it
is
then was
refer
to
the
plant,
at
least
in
1568,
Gerarde as
reasons
(than
those
of
sacred
or
no
haunts
in
this
instance
succeeded
the
Northern
god,
—as
Parsis,
we
find
angel.
The
flowers
\yhich
to
another
Joseph
at times, its
Goat's
Beard.
In
Germany
we
have
had
constantly
to
refer
to
Jupiter
to
be
found.
The
Oak,
above
all
the village
been
written.
I
Alas !
he
came
so
late
in
the
islanders.®
The
Crow-foot
stretched
out
abroad
flower
to
place
upon
the
meaning of
but
in
Sussex
Spenser
calls
on
us
to
in
the
name
of
Panacea
in
ancient
leech-craft,
Eginhard, toward the
spikes of grey
old
rhyme,
:
«
Emerald
Isle
to
Germany,
Spain,
Italy,
strew.
due.
the duration
of this
thy promise,
the
highly
please the
slippers, shawls,
caps, sweets,
the
sequel }
was grieved
sought a
messenger of
fragrant
breath
The ev'ning dew as it fell around.
Left not a
Where, wrapp'd in
paint the Rose,
suggestive.
In
Waldeck
her leaves
flower,
to refer
of the
are
the
cups
the
treasures
of
that
it
will
and
they
open
imme-
diately
have
heard
of
their
that
Rasriv
means
to
open,
spring,
to
once
again
the
same
He says
us
plant
{Typha
latifolid),
which
grows
in
marshes
and
rivers
been
named
Christ's
Thorn.
reason
been
given
to
the
examyned
righte
scharply;
and
tliere
faste
and
so
sore,
that
the
their people
which Christ's
to the
older
traditions,
especially
those
neighbourhood
expulsion from
A yery
general belief is that the cross was made of Aspen,
and
that
the
the leaves
that the
be
called
Jesus
the
since
under.
trees
during
a
reply by
beautify
the
have
been
has
given
the
meaning
of
some
Latin
lines
His
hands,
The four
kinds of
in
making
the
the
have b^en growing at the foot of the
cross,
walls and
legend,
and
bears
years
Christmas
Day.
toilsome
hill,
which
where it at
tradition to the effect
Indian God
tree or
connection
with
our
subject.
infernal
regions.
all
says
(p.
290)
round
it,
and
wood
wind it
capable of
the
Wandering
Je.w
can
no more,
because
lawns
have
with the
are at
mines or spirits
of the departed.
is
given it
Such as those trees
Geranium
that
where
we
find
flowers
and
reference
to
the
benefits
which
much more
In reference
Wild Garlic,
virtue
of
certain
plants
is
the
subject
of
is
during its
proper season,
denoted good
is
supposed
Cornish
indigestible, the
regarded
as
an
indication
of
good
crops
be
bad.
Probably
on
their
flesh.
Haws and other
a strong
him
for
anything.
gardener
even to offer to bring some plants for his master's use,
seeing
that
«yes
In
Vingolf's
also
become
proverbial.^
Linnaeus
speaks
of
the
Lily
tribe
as
these
remarks.
How
expressive
is
The
proverb
last
Slid
our
wise
ancestors.
other
season
than
in
of
season
Midsummer.
is
in
flower,
and
as
the
young
people
returned
to
by
many
good
omen.
Such
strongly
the Ash,
before
the
Oak,
When Elm leaves are as
big
mean
to
have
any.
"
will
hang
on
an
the
phrase
foot having
opportunity
of
referring
was
James
the
leaves
and
invalidate
of which
have
had
its
broken
without
piercing
p.
112,
that
between
Jerusalem
to the human
here
called
Dough-figs,
Turkey-figs,
and
Broad-figs.
There
to plants
to which
property. "Ill
to find
Succoth.'
The
beautiful
metaphor
of
mind
expressive rhyme,
a
proverb:
growing
in
Mexico
and
elsewhere,
the
regularity
or
Evening.
These
China,
India,
Malaya,
and
other
Eastern
countries,
is
a
Vesper
It
Lychnis is
rule
between
five
and
six
o'clock.
Observations
made
by
various
botanists
on
the
opening
and
sight is not
not
refer
to
in our list.
find room for
this
there
jour.
given
to
this
first
of
Mars
well
and
the
this
month
special
honour
was
having flowers suitable
foremost the Hawthorn, which
In Devon the
May;
so
;
Queen.
for
giving
some
little
attention
to
"
many
to identify
owe the
the
Goddess
of
Agriculture
and
Pomona,
them,
bear
studies
size
of
day's
proceedings
led
off,
and
the
party
and
returned home bringing
the May with
the
month.
and rejoicing
With garlands
could bring
by
were
of Nettles
they
go
from
door
the
I
is
too
long
to
put,
indicates
to say,
The
Primrose
has
the
honour
Saffron
the
these,
that
treats
of
its impress on our common
flowers is Lent. Every one is
aware that
them because
as
their
name,
and
:
leves,
therefore
we
beare
it
about
in
were
solemnly
blessed,
of the
of the
frequent
use
on
Palm
Sunday,
and Palms for
and at,
children
say
that
or
quite
a
com-
memorate
that
festival.
How
this
Sunday,
make
ready
to
give
out with
flowers and
Christmas
ceremonies
usually
around
the
withe
arrived,
The
parish
bells
new year,
with
we
have
the
figure
adorn
Flames
at
S.
John
the
Baptist's
tide.
From
on
the
other
hand,
and
compared
of* Fate.
This consists
enlightened
land
in the
and
grandmother
then, that
the belief of
fallacy
the Italians
Sorcerer's
warding
quite
as
necessary
a
person
the
East
were
supposed
to
proper hew,
love
or
Drayton says
over
the
world
we
find
the
same
regard
for
on account
of their
robin is regarded
It is
that tree."''
John's
day,
June
preservative against
evil spirits,,
customary
done by
they would never
of gods
take
by Loki, and
to the
noises
you will be
celerity, close
your door
and bolt
it securely,
Eve
the
fern-seeds
was
who
partook
again.'
whose
show that
gloomy
rocks
Are
says
tradition,
of no
relation
to
witches,
so
divination
by
means
of
a
live on,
to
make
this
magic
instrument
with
it
connected with
the elves
that, according
to the
of the earth
depths of
associated with
 
and when
he is
Andronicus
basin full of
attention
If any
been passed
Mandrake amount
ever
people
of
Genesis,
days of
that
it
is
be
found
other such doltish
them,
as
are
be solde in
with
the
oracles,
their
twenty-five
and
words
were
criminals
which
Some
even
a
Parsnip
or
Carrot,
sale in several
in thy
; then
every
year,
and
helpless,
and
never
disbelieve
such
we shall
luck. If,
wild flower, or,
for parents to
events
of
by
and
other
uneducated
persons."
Yet
the
the
many
place
whereas
Plant
of
the
Good
yet
above
it.
It
rind of
it slips
them.
Greek
writers
tell
I
shall
therefore
In
by-
and-by
as
a
be
traced
with
a
staff
made
of
Ash
wood
round
a
an 1
a block
reasons
as
these
may
have
led
to
the
adoption
great
sacred
heart
It
was
because
old
Dodona,
or
those
passed
(according
to
the
commonly
received
report)
triumphant brows
glories
sing
of
taking
their
bough
of
Mistletoe
called
the
story is so pretty that I will offer no apology
for
giving
favourite
deity.
His
she
perceived
i
Loki,
the
Dark
Spirit,
hated
the
God
were
with
the false
flew
singular
amusement.
The
god
Hodur,
stands."
HoJur
took
the
Mistletoe,
fragment
storm, no one dared
park
of those
writers,
assumes
it
to
be
an
indis-
ANISE
it were
nature's
direction
only."
gave a
the tree a cleane
are
made
This some
word
we
have
a
number
question
had
been
flower the
accidentally slain. To
to
spot
where
the
god
;
by
the
famous
told by fanciful
"
Brings us good
The
flovvers
named
after
,
Many
be proud of
you
should
spread
the
tail
or
of
to the
the
words
and its lore. Some people
still
other years,
of
to
use of
goblins
of
to
church
or
and
the
greenwood,
though
them on many
superstitious
reverence
and
the
time.
my
home
is
Devonshire; but
winter,
so
is
still
flowers,
person
with
a
still
lived
friend
was
no
more,
the
share
of
all
grown
it
is
with
we are in
sick, and
to save him
back
of
through
his
brother.
He
for
as
he
stood
by
the
flowers,
all
at
head
had
as
ever!
each
with
they intend to
never
to
rise
out
perhaps,
in
so
many
words.
the Apple-trees
the
given for
the tree
observed
was
called
Hare's
Palace
written
in
the
West,
of
occurrences
to
make
flowers
;
the Devas of
which
guard
Anotlier
legend
mother
finds
is
made
aware
called
the
of
a
mountain
in
the
countries
an
hour.
itself
from
the
heat
flowers of the
While
many
a
beautiful
bow'r
only one that
from their
labour. If
day, that
to
enjoy
the
privilege
called a
emblem of
gone
mansion
in
an
hour.
husbandmen
of evening damp,
belief that this practice would
produce rain. There can be little doubt that the custom of
"firing"
the
bracken
practice
know
dotting the moors
radiant glow.
vivid
are
hung
shaded his head with
heaven has
the
White-thorn
in itself
sufficient to
abundance
of
blossom
on
Broom
and
Furze,
Then you
you
John,
season some
notice in the
such notions
the other day that here the notion does not now
prevail. We were
the
"
hay
cannot
be
gathered
as to
There
and
the
sun,
upon
 
The
Tamarind-tree,
the
Water-lily,
suspect
Russian steppes.
Numbers
of
short,
quick
springs
along
feet in
and
others
soon
join
the
company ;
in
his
cannot
do
we
can
home
of
suggesting
the
savage
lands
who
placed
implicit
herbs,
and
found
flowers
have
valuable
medicinal
properties
; with
call
attention
characters,
the
use
of
them."
Those
curry
powder,
a
golden
hue
complaint,
and
Turmeric,
the
yellow
have
a
Lady's
Blessed
by
some
that
had
herb
of
in handling this herb,
:
house
of
worms,
because
uses !
But
with
this
avoid
the
herbalists,
and
their
descriptions
of
the
qualities
He, however,
is
denoted
by
a
says that
were
carefully
remarked,
written language by which
medicinal qualities
for
medicine
Cantonese Y^uk—
character;
the
herbs, and
ago I
must
spittle
liave strange qualities ; but
gift
of
invisibility.
Whether
the
cannot say,
but they
plant
may
days after it, if not more." He says that the
smoke
the
mons
Scale
and
applied,
taketh
away
the seventh son
of a seventh
for
their
the remedy,
should
Peas,
the cure of
who presided
repeated meanwhile
away
warts.
still
older
charm
connected
with
this
tree,
nail
for
the
pricked
clergyman
some
time
since
the
grow in the
calling
forth
the
various
creatures
was to be
was going
Lily, and
into
a
leaf
the
person
Lily-
Blythe.
;
Quene
hyth."
In
a
moment
to
another
class
of
ideas
the better.
will
follow,
for
and
countries
during
a cure
farmyard near the
is amusing to
of ague. In
the good parent
and
apply it to the
Mignonette, the
ancients
was
word meaning
was considered
?
young
damsels
in
Sussex
used
Britanny,
where
it
strength to
in
the
He
ago,
yet
those
misgivings
only
showed
themselves
the old
the Mistletoe
which grew
on Oak
trees, which
one still
face the figure
believed,
and
in
some
taken as
patron beast,
the animal world,
tives,
of
gentler
and
kindlier
go to the
garden or the
played
an
important
part
here
soldiers
called the
Rose-
to the amaze-
Pre-
bearing the impress of the badge
York
England alone that we find
it associated with heraldry.
all
its
associations,
been
used
as
an
Heraldic
Lily was
England,
in
Later
in
history
the
Lily
of
Bourbon,
In the
of
a
is found,
"
were
the
case,
no
chosen
by
St.
Patrick,
seeing
that
driven all such
national
badge
in
Covent
meet the
of
that
saint.
The
plant
which
many
years
been
recognized
in
Ireland
{Trifolium
repens)
 
unwarriorlike,
but
their rule, and,
Scottish
camp,
when
suddenly
highest
honour
marriage of
impossible to
insert here.
The device
Brewer, by Queen
warriors
they wished
to institute
mark of
bright red. When Napoleon III. France heard
of
of
the
Legion
of
Honour,
of
found it
the young
warrior entered
by
the
genista
has
been
so
interestingly
referred
to
work on
badge by
crest,
amid
race."
Another
connec-
prepared
to
to
have
when she
chose the Daisy as her own flower, and that the
nobles
happier Margaret,
her
brother,
a
Lily
royal
Tudor,
on
whose
head
it
a
bush
of
fruited
Hawthorn.
meaning
to
our
own.
Sweden
we
fadeth not away.
understood
that
he
said
he
would
return
reparaitra
au
printemps).
or
Corporal
Violet
among
hardly
avoid
reviving
the
traditions
"
of
given
is
plant.
"We
must
satisfy
ourselves
Revolution,
by
violently
vituperating
account
of
their
aristocratical
colour.
of March,
nine
"
introduced,
it
an
generally
con-
he chose the
purple Iris as
generate times
probable
that
the
instituted between
its 'glory
and that the
words
are
"three
in
itself,
founded,
and
to
illustrate
the
often
necessary
to
of Clovis
flower,
that
was
and
from
Fleur-
de-Louis
to
Fleur-de-lis.
a
first
of
all
be
new-begot
Cropp'd
are
Lily.
Chaucer,
too,
de-luce
is
the
Lily,
but
there
Stock-Gilliflower, the Cowslip,
the Flower-de-luces, and
plant
those
who
and
the
same
Rose of
in
1340,
or
consequence
brow.
French,
ment
George HI. was
on the throne.
Gorcias,
the
fourth
king
of
Navarre,
on
belonging
to
armorial
bearings
attention to the
colonel and neglect
other
quality
of
which
the
Bible
of interest,
of
and greenhouse
often
find
them
most
expressive
intelligently
and
handed
down
True,
he
 
the
eleventh
century
we
find
French,
Italians,
ing
the
fresh,
living
specimen.
facts,
so
as
to
enable
the
in
sections.
II.
Names
and
China,
I
shall
refer
only
to
those
names
the Parsley
The very
form being
the name
and
which
some
suppose
to
gets
its
name
bears the
Greek
fiaXaxv,
are
those
of
Latin
large
field
for
observation,
but
from it; wherefore it
carry this
just
a
thing
whereupon
words are still living on amongst us in
the
popular
names
perliaps be
Somersetshire
name
for
Keltic etymology.
bark the
cause the tree used to be
called
given it
linda in some of the neighbouring languages.'
Adder's-tongue
is
said to be from the Dutch adderstong; and the word
Elm,
though
in
any
Wild Oat
the
that
many
words
be-
ginning
each
name
and in
be
somewhat
in
doubt
as
to
what
flowers
delight."
In
Devonshire
the
Purple
Orchis
is by
regarded
by
special
attention
to
any
names
we
be
those
noticed.
Animals'
the
apparent
reference
to
that
member
of
the
cusloppe; and
the
word had something to do with a flap or flop, certainly
not
with
a
lip
Botany
will
remember
that
a
same meaning
vegetables consists
In
Ears
next
Donkey's-ear
and
other
extremities
of
the
Lion's-
foot
or
Lion's-paw.
There
of a
(Hazel
Then
we
We
Colours.
A
most
curious
and
interesting
to the
is
at
bell,
English),
which,
like
the
a
red
colour.
"
which is open to
Roses, and
with the original
name Crocus.
who
named
the
plant
was
its
deep
karkom,
seeing
that
the name would in
out
Egyptian.
and
rainbow.'
Violets,
Primroses,
Cowslips,
of
the
labourer's
pictorial
repre-
sentations
they
to
analyze
many
of
our
their
lady
customers
light yellow has
the
earliest
colour
which
out by
The
early
prominence
of
has
whilst we
the human body.
In
China,
Citron
is
called
Buddha's
Hand,
the
Cantonese
form
of
the
name
being
Fat-shau,
the
shape
the Red
exact
they
could
be
graphic
they
naturally
resorted.
Thus
the
leaf
of
population generally. We had,
this
for
this
chapter,
because
we
could
he who can listen to
their voice and
to
every
blossom. It is also said that the Greeks understood the
art of
the old Dream-book of
of
East
had
lent
a
mute
civility,
even
emblem
of
the
particularly,
booths at
—
necks
by
they were
always green
or
more
spoken
of
as
indicative
with
either
a
branch
or
a
crown
of
of each
is
continually
blematically.
seen
Bay-tree
was
formerly
considered
by
the
superstitious
is said that
observed.
This
branch
of
flower-language
we
shall
Flowering
That alights
on Misery's
by
but
it
will
of old
had many
some
idea.
I
the
Rose
lias
done
and
emblem
of
true
affection,
and
I
Rose of
:
"
in-
creased
the
lover's
affection,
he
sprung
from
the
tears
which
the
goddess
shed.
"
juster sentiment, have made them
emblems
will
find
land.
Here
is
a
legend
relating
master
expressive
idea.
Take
the
Pansy,
so familiar
flower
when Christiana
and her
Humiliation,
Hoping likewise
long
since
wear the
colour of
Violets was to
it
!
were
supposed
to
rule
the
the
Chamomile
is
also
employed
for
the
same
purpose.
of a
took
but
flower-language this
herb is
we remember
the brain,
as well
prisoner ; but for this
so
her
gifts
Mary
Antoinette,
which
will
be
enclosing
a
orchards
morn decays."
lect. "It hides the
There
from this
question.* Perhaps I may,
however, remark in refer-
personal
injury
on
the
person
of
the
unlucky
matron
who
might
step
over
for
expressing
this
flowering,
and
some
very
closely.
 
Deceit.
The
White
possess
language
first
this
plant
Greek and
Latin authors
called,
its
snatch
would
the
mad."
buds,
some
full
of
of the
the various
"
and
people
have
come
sooner got
this Cow-flop must
Oat,
to
the
that nightingales
times, it is
one
place
and I have, once at least, enjoyed the solace of
their sweet
in Devonshire,
it is
Cowslip. Professor Earle
and
by
the
some parts
Lilac. The
but
I
find
two
or
Ducks'-bills.
I
he
had
always
known
Lilac
blossoms
in
the
or May-bush.
belong
to
the
Ribwort
Plantain
{Tlantago
lanceolatd).
It
will
are
not
necessary
of England. I
rush. Dr. Prior, in his work
on
the
a
thin
which the farmers
Bulrushes
are
quite
different
things
helps
us
the
hedgerows
seem
to
have
a
vague
idea
that
the
Anglo-Saxon
word
ascribed.
public,
a
small
Chrysanthemum,
Several different flowers
Speedwell
that in
to those
Marsh
Marigold,
Primrose
called
Butter-rose ?
This
name
in
Devonshire
I
to
Somersetshire they
called
Cuckoo's-
Bread-and-Cheese,
and
Bread-and-Cheese
Tree.
Dsvonshire,
and
inquired
the
name
Gates," said she.
"
called
Now
we
shall
be
to
thinking
it
little
not destitute of
the
I
have
Red
Campion
ever
there comes
forth in such abundance as I have never seen in any
other
county,
that
flowers,
the
weeds
ours.
We
'
the tops of
'
both
cases,
how-
to the
names are
"
to
them
trees
as
the
word
Apple
among
ourselves
is
applied
kind of
just
The
known
account
bare
skin.
Gorse,
Sussex
the
same
prickly
plant
with
its
golden
blossoms
(so
admired
to see it) is called Hawth.
Speaking
of
" Accidinetmn,
gosl,
for
plants
and
flowers
other fruits
There is
which
is
in
Devon,
however,
it
is
called
Bullens,
fruit of the
name.
Dr.
name
"
(?>.,
had
to
the
same
conclusion.
our
country
we can by
a
similar
practice
"
payment
of
taxes
is
very
widespread.
have heard my mother
other
linen."
In
China
articles,
known
among
foreigners
as
grass-cloth
It
has
even
must
always
sow
plenty
of
parsley,
as
when
sown
use
of
flowers,
says
a reference
twenty
bushels
of.
to
refer
to
these
beautiful
grounds
again.
In
France
conduct. The custom
custom
for
see
all the
sweet
flowers,
and
herbs.
to the
like dignity
breaking
a
straw
between
the possession
I
the
contract
made
between
us."
a
present
time.
surrender
this straw
illegal.
This
is
certainly
a
We
are
use the stipula
in their love
de
Gubernatis,
of property,
A straw is
is
presented
the straw one
of
remarks
and is
a
much
witness
that
the
father
acknowledges
it
which
they
islands, and
compelled
to
plant
a
large
"
reminding
us that the Greek word for the world set forth their
idea of its
the
like
this
buildings of note
of which we
Christian
Virgins.
with
a
principal
embellishment
of
Indian
buildings,
adopted for
the endchmeiit
of our
the rock itself
always
further discuss
other
builders
corresponded
to
apses
of
is
represented
on
there is always sufficient
been brought
overlooked.
But
what
of
Oak
? One
would
Oak
but
flower
and
plant,
for
decoration
century it
golden petals
of its
Nor
star-like blossoms have
taken a worthy
coins
of
ancient
Greece
will
render
kinds,
wreaths
made
of
leaves,
language. I do not
This
would
guage
tree,
they
picture
for
grass,
for
example,
the various letters of the most modern language can be
traced back
our names
names
of
persons
; how
many
are
drawn
a
miraculous
he
maintained that
are
often
emblems
'
and
made
readers
talk
of
plant called
then,
connected
many
who
gloried
other
a tho sand
and that
Honeysuckle. The
a garden
I saw
Ely's
garden
in
Holborn
must
have
been
But along with the Roses and
Strawberries
we
his
country,
stole
brought
if
he
had
been
taken,
it
came,
respecting the
;
called
Heskett,
in
Cumberland,
yearly
St.
ancient
original
limit
and
Derby,
a bean,
signifying
As
always
natives
India
there
to
weigh
diamonds.
consisting of four nominal grains,
a little lighter than
used
by
been
presumed
the study
of flower?
lore that
write a
alarmed
to
the conse-
bewitched
cattle,
or
render
assistance
to
people
the
origin
of
the Chinese word, and though this is not the place
to go
sayings and doings
to
in some
two
question is, what
(fiaaKaiveiv),
Hebrew,
and
often seen the
present part of
seem to have
upon as the
learned,
those flowers and
the
maiden
from
be
to
of
our
an
to
have
a
Coles tells us most
they
will
a draught
"
to
be
only
fit
Third Witch
Hemlock,
long and is
stole,
Orleans
in
France.
Conway
remarks
that
in
shroud,
and
so
long
The same
author says
made
him
fly,
With
party-colour'
d
which
Rue
to see."
they
Irish
as
Zauber-Sirauch,
the
word
wic-en,
well
tion
Padus),
which
which
will
Smallage,
Wolf-bane,
the
greatest
amount
In the
on
St.
John's
plant is
the
house,
or
In
Germany
about
on
the
shall
of which they
go by,
have had
work.
The
in
their
it is said
is
It
or
fascination,
this
plant
were
derived
its
name.
Some
have,
however,
taken
the
word
to
indicate
what
slender
and
ridiculous
foundations
sufficient
But he
would also
Druids, and
the half-sacred
As
.'
certain, but
Weather-glass,
needs
no
is
good
to
prevent
witchcraft."
When
in succession,
Mr.
Dyer,
from
whose
little
work
on
a
in
common
with
is
led to the
in
stitious
'Tis
mortal
sin
religious
zeal,
Which serve
of the
its
five-leaved
grass,
made
use
famous,
the
with
The
magic
wreath
able to
the spells
keep
their
cattle
from
to
have
been
believed
that
if
herbs
Reginald, tlic
author of
labour he
my man, why did you not cut the three crosses
yesterday ? It would
you.
In
of
the
St.
Peter.
The
destruction
no
and
served
St.
Patrick
eagerly
listened
to
whatever
she
visitor),
tribute. This tribute is
And happy
her
lioi
in Yorkshire, this
;
witches,
while
they plucked
to
make
preserve from witches
equally
obnoxious.
that the
; how Rowan
remind of the
been
discussed,
I
touched as
I
interesting
subject.
churchyard ever
tell
of
changed
rites
in
the
in
England
in Germany,
with
flowers,
no
attend
them
at
this
terrible
sacrifice."
In
churchyards and cemeteries
This
future resurrection
and
retained.
may
the ancient
South
Wales,
as
in
Cheshire
and
Bucks,
is
finally
thrown.
Several
of the
which
we
find
reference
in
the
them
A sprig of Rosemary, dipp'd in common water,
To smell
Lavender
in which
tapers."
Beauford
here, or this
A reference
Of careful
apply
How
different
says
said,
notwith-
standing
amongst
the
gentiler
sort,
but
commons
both
at
plants
writer
of
the
same
decade
plants, in A Mayderis
For him
victorie."
It
will
be
found
the
wear
some
By
the
Hindus
This
by
designated
a
the
passage
value and
nature varying
made
relation
of one of
of the
common, and
bears the
;
is,
that
she
facts
"
with
Sage.
It
customs of
the people.
shrubs
were
to
place
their
dead
decked
with
flowers,
and,
thus
prepared,
underworld.
When
an
adult
dies,
the
nearest
relatives
carry
the
corpse,
German
Among
newly-built
tomb"
be found in other chapters,
which
relate
is
considered
unlucky
to
beautiful
Lilies
painter
them himself,
it
is
still
firmly
the
pits
just
if you
also
an
Mrs. Latham
brought
into
the
house
in
blossom
during
the
month
of
living.'
of leaves."
on the table
The
writer
adds,
ducklings
died,
the
ornamented
Mallow,
Or
cloudless
triumph
bright.
With happy garlands
only
entering
into
in CymbeHne say
from
resting
place,
flowers
a
state
which
we
must
all
meet,
shortly
super-
stitions
are
In the Tyrol
the same
Yew
still
called
Palm
in
some
places—
a
preceding
the
invention
archers
and
their
Yew,
like
so
many
other
trees,
head
of
a
prince,
crowns.
Then
present
subject
with
his
lines
or two very
general
have
talent, his
i
To
any
with the
for
long
the Laurel
Shakspere. The
Oak was
as
a
is
pre-eminent.
;
gave
birth
to
the
round, or
garlands
was
"
name of
Alehoof, has
Sometimes the
"
occasion
"payde
for
iiij^
and
solar
worship,
a
symbolic
and
abundant
use
at Salisbury
Who chosen is their queen
;
—
to
to us
Continent
was again
that
any
use
of
the
Willow
for
the
best,
The
flesh burnt
but
to the
necks.
This
custom
of
at
this
inn
is
most
com-
fortable,
among
which
the
following
have
been
enumerated
Papyrus
in
Rose-bud or
the
admit our indebtedness
esteemed
South Sea
Islanders revel
taste
delightful
to
while
away
the
suitable
to
fill
In spite of
all this declamation
than
in
measles
or
small-pox.
Vervain
was
one
sacred
herb,
and
an
amulet,
but
also
to
cure
venomous
bites
and
of
interest.^
prepared
neck on
the
corpse.
the
forfeiture
of
his
In
Tonga
wreaths
of
ifi
brought oxen and garlands
sacrifice with the people."
decked
employed in
diadem
to
the
remnant
of
His
army,
to
treat
of
peace.
done
the Egyptian
and
their
gods,
gained."
The
palm
is
for
monians that they
wards
House,
in honour of the
three times,
has
In Switzerland
and
which
if
wreaths
made
of
on the eve of that day, be placed in the
houses, they will
among
the
year. Here
the
mighty
goddesses,
remarks
that
to be
taken literally
rose
A
highest. Violet chaplets
Alcibiades
went
and asking, Where is Agatho
.'
his
followers,
of Ivy
exclaiming : All hail,
;
being uniformly adhered
the
head,
It
St.
I
have
already
of Scotland,"
the general
public. 1
may, however,
our obligations
some of
his matter
; and it
may be
properly regarded
the results of
Some
(Finger-
wort)
p. 89
: "Les Dames
et dryades
and
Ambrose
p.
119
on Galatians
by
"
study
in
de
Mannhardt,
notamment
dans
son
been explained,
herbalists
(and
dass dem
following
references
are
every month.
costus
fetrietaria,
need
about the Willow wreath. Brand is in this also the
fullest
writer
notices
of
this
subject
the
"Willow
Pattern,"
will
subject.
and other
special note,
be
indebted to
several others,
that I
Archbishop
Trench's
little
of a thing being
to health
been deemed potent
must
Year's Day, as
his
family
within
the
course
of
the
on the adventuress, has even
complained of
time called
among
clothes,
to
Antiquary, iii.,
case
at
second
hand.
This
on
account
of
their
hot,
dry
who bears
British
Armorials."
and I must therefore be content to
leave
matter
may
Life,"
p.
447;
to
'
p.
451;
Fynis
insult it
Thistle
even
the
Scotch
antiquaries
cannot
most
touching
badge,
words
of a
the
water,
close
to
from
could not regain
kermes.
ancient
religion
of
Apollo. The
youth Hyacinthus,
elementary religion.
name
Life,"
p.
444;
"Flora
Domestica,"
Preface,
p.
xxi.
Studio,"
"
not
been
culled
from
books,
Adams's "Roman Antiquities,''
article on
the other
having allowed,
me for
matters
of
literary
or
his references,
witchcraft,
over for my other work.
Meanwhile
the
references
to
this
chapter,
similar customs,
must be
intended for young people, as well as for the more
advanced reader, to
be
found
my
me assistance.
ffe
champetre
ii.,
les roses aient
Mandrake 'the
Devil's Candle,'
night."
be
the
Burdock
(see
p.
166),
and
in
Names" gave
various reasons
Potentilla from
siy
the
Greeks.
See
Britten,
a
leaf
import dtities on
the coffin four days,
(p.
14)
respecting
the