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Another version being:-- "Sow peas and beans on David and Chad, Be the weather good or bad." A Somersetshire piece of agricultur ...

Some plants, again, have gained a notoriety from opening or shutting their flowers at the sun's bidding; in allusion to which Pe ...

To conjure lost hours back again." Among other flowers possessing a similar feature may be noticed the wild succory, creeping ma ...

Of the numerous other instances of weather-lore associated with agricultural operations, it is said in relation to rain:-- "Sow ...

from moving they will, when released, instantly begin their task anew and with redoubled energy. Similarly the leaves of the Col ...

CHAPTER XI PLANT PROVERBS. A host of curious proverbs have, from the earliest period, clustered round the vegetable world, most ...

"It is as long in coming as Cotswold barley." "The corn in this cold country," writes Ray, "exposed to the winds, bleak and shel ...

"Peel a fig for your friend, and a peach for your enemy." This proverb, however, is not quite clear when applied to this country ...

"An apple, an egg, and a nut, You may eat after a slut." Selfishness in giving is thus expressed:-- "To give an apple where ther ...

garland made of willow. Thus in "Othello," Desdemona (Act iv. sc. 3) anticipating her death, says:-- "My mother had a maid calle ...

A phrase current, according to Ray, in Gloucestershire for those "who always have a sad, severe, and terrific countenance," is, ...

In connection with which may be quoted the words of Ovid to the same effect:-- "Quid magis est durum saxo? Quid mollius unda? Du ...

In allusion, it has been suggested, to the fact that the ash is a capital tree for draining the soil in its vicinity. But leavin ...

Many, again, are the proverbial sayings associated with roses--most of these being employed to indicate what is not only sweet a ...

vigil. On the other hand, there is a common saying with respect to rosemary, which was once much cultivated in kitchen gardens:- ...

"Eat cress to learn more wit." Of fruit proverbs we are told that, "If you would enjoy the fruit, pluck not the flower." And aga ...

There are many sayings of this kind still current among our country- folk, some of which no doubt contain good advice; and of th ...

CHAPTER XII. PLANTS AND THEIR CEREMONIAL USE. In the earliest period of primitive society flowers seem to have been largely used ...

there was their festival of the Floralia, in honour of the reappearance of spring-time, with its hosts of bright blossoms, a sur ...

kept for sixteen years, until the close of the war. A further case of extreme severity was that of P. Munatius, who was condemne ...