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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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The
passion-flower
has
been
termed
Holy
Rood
flower,
and
it
is
the
ecclesiastical
emblem
of
Holy
Cross
Day,
for,
according
to
the
familiar
couplet:--
"The
passion-flower
long
has
blow'd
To
betoken
us
signs
of
the
Holy
Rood."
Then
there
is
the
Michaelmas
Day,
which:--
"Among
dead
weeds,
Bloom
for
St.
Michael's
valorous
deeds,"
and
the
golden
star
lily,
termed
St.
Jerome's
lily.
On
St.
Luke's
Day,
certain
flowers,
as
we
have
already
noticed,
have
been
in
request
for
love
divinations;
and
on
the
Continent
the
chestnut
is
eaten
on
the
festival
of
St.
Simon,
in
Piedmont
on
All
Souls'
Day,
and
in
France
on
St.
Martin's,
when
old
women
assemble
beneath
the
windows
and
sing
a
long
ballad.
Hallowe'en
has
its
use
among
divinations,
at
which
time
various
plants
are
in
request,
and
among
the
observance
of
All
Souls'
Day
was
blessing
the
beans.
It
would
appear,
too,
that
in
days
gone
by,
on
the
eve
of
All
Saints'
Day,
heath
was
specially
burnt
by
way
of
a
bonfire:--
"On
All
Saints'
Day
bare
is
the
place
where
the
heath
is
burnt;
The
plough
is
in
the
furrow,
the
ox
at
work."
From
the
shape
of
its
flower,
the
trumpet-flowered
wood-sorrel
has
been
called
St.
Cecilia's
flower,
whose
festival
is
kept
on
November
22.
The
Nigella
damascena,
popularly
known
as
love-in-a-mist,
was
designated
St.
Catherine's
flower,
"from
its
persistent
styles,"
writes
Dr.
Prior,[5]
"resembling
the
spokes
of
her
wheel."
There
was
also
the
Catherine-pear,
to
which
Gay
alludes
in
his
"Pastorals,"
where
Sparabella,
on
comparing
herself
with
her
rival,
says:--
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
