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Plant-lore and the poetic aspect, as in astronomy, should have attention throughout, while Latin nomenclature and microscopic technic should come late if at all, and vulgar names should have precedence over Latin terminology. Flowers, gardening, and excursions should never be wanting.
Great minds have been at it these two thousand years, and yet we are still only nibbling at the edge of the leaf, as the ploughboys bite the young hawthorn in spring. The mere classification all plant-lore was a vast chaos till there came the man of Sweden, the great Linnaeus, till the sexes were recognised, and everything was ruled out and set in place again. A wonderful man!
H.G. Adams's useful work on the "Moral Language and Poetry of Flowers," not to mention the constant allusions scattered throughout the works of our old poets, such as Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Drayton. Introduction, p. 12. Folkard's "Plant Legends," p. 389. See Judith xv. 13. "Flower-lore," pp. 197-8. "Plant-lore of Shakespeare." "Flower-lore," p. 168.
And although an immense amount of superstition has been interwoven with folk-medicine, there is a certain amount of truth in the many remedies which for centuries have been, with more or less success, employed by the peasantry, both at home and abroad. See Tylor's "Primitive Culture," ii. See Folkard's "Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 164. "Mystic Trees and Shrubs," p. 717.
"Primitive Culture," 1873, ii. 416, 417. See Dorman's "Primitive Superstition," p. 68. Thorpe's "Northern Mythology," 1851, ii. 108. "Primitive Superstitions," p. 67. "Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 265. Quoted in Brand's "Popular Antiquities," 1849, iii. 135. See Friend's "Flower-Lore," i. 207. Folkard's "Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 477.
It would seem, too, that in some of our old legends and superstitions the terms Puck and Devil are synonymous, a circumstance which explains the meaning, otherwise unintelligible, of many items of plant-lore in our own and other countries.
See Ellacombe's "Plant-lore of Shakespeare," p. 319. From the earliest times plants have been most extensively used in the cure of disease, although in days of old it was not so much their inherent medicinal properties which brought them into repute as their supposed magical virtues.
Smith's "Brazil," p. 586; "Primitive Superstitions," p. 293. See Folkard's "Plant-lore, Legends, and Lyrics," p. 524. See the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1875, p. 315. According to another legend, forget-me-nots sprang up.
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