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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
101
6.
Quoted
in
Brand's
"Popular
Antiquities,"
1849,
iii.
135.
7.
See
Friend's
"Flower-Lore,"
i.
207.
8.
Folkard's
"Plant-lore
Legends
and
Lyrics,"
p.
477.
CHAPTER
X.
PLANTS
AND
THE
WEATHER.
The
influence
of
the
weather
on
plants
is
an
agricultural
belief
which
is
firmly
credited
by
the
modern
husbandman.
In
many
instances
his
meteorological
notions
are
the
result
of
observation,
although
in
some
cases
the
reason
assigned
for
certain
pieces
of
weather-lore
is
far
from
obvious.
Incidental
allusion
has
already
been
made
to
the
astrological
doctrine
of
the
influence
of
the
moon's
changes
on
plants--a
belief
which
still
retains
its
hold
in
most
agricultural
districts.
It
appears
that
in
years
gone
by
"neither
sowing,
planting,
nor
grafting
was
ever
undertaken
without
a
scrupulous
attention
to
the
increase
or
waning
of
the
moon;"[1]
and
the
advice
given
by
Tusser
in
his
"Five
Hundred
Points
of
Husbandry"
is
not
forgotten
even
at
the
present
day:--
"Sow
peas
and
beans
in
the
wane
of
the
moon,
Who
soweth
them
sooner,
he
soweth
too
soon,
That
they
with
the
planet
may
rest
and
rise,
And
flourish
with
bearing,
most
plentiful-wise."
Many
of
the
old
gardening
books
give
the
same
advice,
although
by
some
it
has
been
severely
ridiculed.
Scott,
in
his
"Discoverie
of
Witchcraft,"
notes
how,
"the
poor
husbandman
perceiveth
that
the
increase
of
the
moon
maketh
plants
fruitful,
so
as
in
the
full
moone
they
are
in
best
strength,
decaying
in
the
wane,
and
in
the
conjunction
do
entirely
wither
and
fade."
Similarly
the
growth
of
mushrooms
is
said
to
be
affected
by
the
weather,
and
in
Devonshire
apples
"shrump
up"
if
picked
during
a
waning
moon.[2]
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