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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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A
few
years
ago
Dr.
George
Birwood
contributed
to
the
Athenaeum
some
interesting
remarks
on
Persian
flower-worship.
Speaking
of
the
Victoria
Gardens
at
Bombay,
he
says:--"A
true
Persian
in
flowing
robe
of
blue,
and
on
his
head
his
sheep-skin
hat--black,
glossy,
curled,
the
fleece
of
Kar-Kal--would
saunter
in,
and
stand
and
meditate
over
every
flower
he
saw,
and
always
as
if
half
in
vision.
And
when
the
vision
was
fulfilled,
and
the
ideal
flower
he
was
seeking
found,
he
would
spread
his
mat
and
sit
before
it
until
the
setting
of
the
sun,
and
then
pray
before
it,
and
fold
up
his
mat
again
and
go
home.
And
the
next
night,
and
night
after
night,
until
that
particular
flower
faded
away,
he
would
return
to
it,
and
bring
his
friends
in
ever-increasing
troops
to
it,
and
sit
and
play
the
guitar
or
lute
before
it,
and
they
would
all
together
pray
there,
and
after
prayer
still
sit
before
it
sipping
sherbet,
and
talking
the
most
hilarious
and
shocking
scandal,
late
into
the
moonlight;
and
so
again
and
again
every
evening
until
the
flower
died.
Sometimes,
by
way
of
a
grand
finale,
the
whole
company
would
suddenly
rise
before
the
flower
and
serenade
it,
together
with
an
ode
from
Hafiz,
and
depart."
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