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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
125
In
Herefordshire
there
is
a
popular
rhyme
associated
with
the
aul
(Alnus
glutinosus):--
"When
the
bud
of
the
aul
is
as
big
as
the
trout's
eye,
Then
that
fish
is
in
season
in
the
river
Wye."
A
Yorkshire
name
for
the
quaking
grass
(Briza
media)
is
"trembling
jockies,"
and
according
to
a
local
proverb:--
"A
trimmling
jock
i'
t'
house,
An'
you
weeant
hev
a
mouse,"
This
plant
being,
it
is
said,
obnoxious
to
mice.
According
to
a
Warwickshire
proverb:--
"Plant
your
sage
and
rue
together,
The
sage
will
grow
in
any
weather."
This
list
of
plant
proverbs
might
easily
be
extended,
but
the
illustrations
quoted
in
the
preceding
pages
are
a
fair
sample
of
this
portion
of
our
subject.
Whereas
many
are
based
on
truth,
others
are
more
or
less
meaningless.
At
any
rate,
they
still
thrive
to
a
large
extent
among
our
rural
community,
by
whom
they
are
regarded
as
so
many
household
sayings.
Footnotes:
1.
See
Akerman's
"Wiltshire
Glossary,"
p.
18.
2.
"English
Proverbs
and
Proverbial
Phrases,"
pp.
327-8.
3.
"Proverbs
and
Proverbial
Phrases,"
p.
207.
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