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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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There
is
in
many
places
a
curious
antipathy
to
uprooting
the
house-leek,
some
persons
even
disliking
to
let
it
blossom,
and
a
similar
prejudice
seems
to
have
existed
against
the
cuckoo-flower,
for,
if
found
accidentally
inverted
in
a
May
garland,
it
was
at
once
destroyed.
In
Prussia
it
is
regarded
as
ominous
for
a
bride
to
plant
myrtle,
although
in
this
country
it
has
the
reputation
of
being
a
lucky
plant.
According
to
a
Somersetshire
saying,
"The
flowering
myrtle
is
the
luckiest
plant
to
have
in
your
window,
water
it
every
morning,
and
be
proud
of
it."
We
may
note
here
that
there
are
many
odd
beliefs
connected
with
the
myrtle.
"Speaking
to
a
lady,"
says
a
correspondent
of
the
Athenaeum
(Feb.
5,
1848),
"of
the
difficulty
which
I
had
always
found
in
getting
a
slip
of
myrtle
to
grow,
she
directly
accounted
for
my
failure
by
observing
that
perhaps
I
had
not
spread
the
tail
or
skirt
of
my
dress,
and
looked
proud
during
the
time
I
was
planting
it.
It
is
a
popular
belief
in
Somersetshire
that
unless
a
slip
of
myrtle
is
so
planted,
it
will
never
take
root."
The
deadly
nightshade
is
a
plant
of
ill
omen,
and
Gerarde
describing
it
says,
"if
you
will
follow
my
counsel,
deal
not
with
the
same
in
any
case,
and
banish
it
from
your
gardens,
and
the
use
of
it
also,
being
a
plant
so
furious
and
deadly;
for
it
bringeth
such
as
have
eaten
thereof
into
a
dead
sleep,
wherein
many
have
died."
There
is
a
strong
prejudice
to
sowing
parsley,
and
equally
a
great
dislike
to
transplanting
it,
the
latter
notion
being
found
in
South
America.
Likewise,
according
to
a
Devonshire
belief,
it
is
highly
unlucky
to
plant
a
bed
of
lilies
of
the
valley,
as
the
person
doing
so
will
probably
die
in
the
course
of
the
next
twelve
months.
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