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Updated: May 23, 2025
Fifty years later, Gerard, the Adam of English gardening, wrote: "Who can but marvel at the care and singular workmanship shown in this Thistle, the Melocarduus echinatus, or Hedgehog Thistle? It groweth upon the cliffes and gravelly grounds neere unto the seaside in the islands of the West Indies, called St. Margaret's and St.
For, whatever knowledge the donkey might have possessed about the flood, he did not realise the fact that since he last tickled his palate with the spinous thistle an herb which probably assumed to his throat the flavour that pepper does to ours there had been a considerable depth of water over the fen, and that it was very soft.
The five others were 'Justice, holding a thistle, symbolizing law; 'Eloquence, crowned with roses and holding a lyre; 'Strength, bending an oak branch; 'Truth, crushing a serpent and bearing a mirror and some lilies; and 'Prudence, with the horn of plenty and some holly. These six panels are remarkable for the beautiful decorative feeling that suffuses their composition.
A plot of green grass, ill kept and deformed, with noxious weeds, dock, fennel, thistle, and foul stramonium, was surrounded by a rough wall of loose stones, forming the lawn, such as it was, where, under a tree, seated in an armchair, was a solitary woman, whom Fanchon recognized as her aunt, Marie Josephte Dodier, surnamed La Corriveau.
Professor Mannhardt relates a strange legend current in Mecklenburg to the effect that in a certain secluded and barren spot, where a murder had been committed, there grows up every day at noon a peculiarly-shaped thistle, unlike any other of its kind. On inspection there are to be seen human arms, hands, and heads, and as soon as twelve heads have appeared, the weird plant vanishes.
"Let me have another turn at him," cried Tom, as he started off to catch the mule, which had cantered off a few hundred yards, and was searching about with his nose amongst the sand and stones for a few succulent blades of grass where there was not so much as a thistle or a cactus to be seen.
No bumblebee, dipping into a flower-cup, ever sipped and twinkled more rapturously than they. When the last drop was eaten, they made ready to go. Each in turn kissed Toinette's hand, and said a word of farewell. Thistle brushed his feathered cap over the doorpost as he passed. "Be lucky, house," he said, "for you have received and entertained the luck-bringers. And be lucky, Toinette.
This is the trial we shall give you; and if your love for Lily-Bell be strong enough to keep you from all cruelty and selfishness, and make you kind and loving as you should be, she will awake to welcome you, and love you still more fondly than before." Then Thistle, with a last look on the little friend he loved so well, set forth alone to his long task.
These mountains were reached the following day, and, after passing through numberless defiles, the caravan debouched on a plain covered with stones, bright as if they had been polished by hand a naked country torn by the sun, in which nothing grew, not even a thistle.
Then is given the death bellow; a noise more expressive of fierce agony than any I know. I have often distinguished it from a long distance, and have always known that the struggle was then drawing to a close. The whole sight is horrible and revolting: the ground is almost made of bones; and the horses and riders are drenched with gore. Excursion to St. Fe. Thistle Beds. Habits of the Bizcacha.
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