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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
205
The
maiden
must
choose
one
of
the
flowers
named,
on
which
she
passes
some
approving
epithet,
adding,
at
the
same
time,
a
disapproving
rejection
of
the
other
two,
as
in
the
following
terms:
'I
will
sink
the
pink,
swim
the
rose,
and
bring
hame
the
gillyflower
to
land.'
The
young
men
then
disclose
the
names
of
the
parties
upon
whom
they
had
fixed
those
appellations
respectively,
when
it
may
chance
she
has
slighted
the
person
to
whom
she
is
most
attached,
and
contrariwise."
Games
of
this
kind
are
very
varied,
and
still
afford
many
an
evening's
amusement
among
the
young
people
of
our
country
villages
during
the
winter
evenings.
Footnotes:
1.
Journal
of
Horticulture,
1876,
p.
355.
2.
Johnston's
"Botany
of
Eastern
Borders."
3.
"Dictionary
of
Archaic
and
Provincial
Words."
4.
Johnston's
"Botany
of
Eastern
Borders,"
p.
57.
5.
"Botany
of
Eastern
Borders,"
p.
85.
6.
"English
Botany,"
ed.
I,
iii.
p.
3.
7.
"Dictionary
of
Plant
Names"
(Britten
and
Holland),
p.
145.
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