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and one of their old chronicles tells us how the Ruanwellé dagoba--270 feet high--was festooned with garlands from pedestal to p ...

"Glad earth perceives, and from her bosom pours Unbidden herbs and voluntary flowers: Thick, new-born violets a soft carpet spre ...

as a symbol that she never would want any of these grains so long as she did her duty. In the Tyrol is a fine grove of pine-tree ...

marriage—a circumstance which is partly to be accounted for by the fact that in the East the orange-tree bears ripe fruit and bl ...

And Electra is represented as complaining that the tomb of her father, Agamemnon, had not been duly adorned with myrtle-- "With ...

statesmen, and soldiers, and princes, and scholars equally with children and maidens are the objects of it." Again, in Oldenburg ...

weddings. They are all plants which fade not a good while after they are gathered, and used (as I conceive) to intimate unto us ...

Indeed, in all the ceremonial observances of life, from the cradle to the grave, flowers have formed a prominent feature, the sy ...

CHAPTER XIII. PLANT NAMES. The origin and history of plant names is a subject of some magnitude, and is one that has long engage ...

proposed in explanation of it, some being of opinion that the lily and not the iris is referred to. But the weight of evidence s ...

primeval forests of India, and among the multitudinous instances of names traceable to far-off countries may be mentioned the li ...

The particular uses to which certain plants have been applied have originated their names: the horse-bean, from being grown as a ...

Many curious names have resulted from the prefix pig, as in Sussex, where the bird's-foot trefoil is known as pig's-pettitoes; a ...

ladder," "Christ's thorn," "Holy Ghost," and "Herb-Trinity," make up almost the whole list. On the other hand, the Virgin Mary h ...

In the northern counties the poplar, on account of its bitter bark, was termed the bitter-weed.[7] "Oak, ash, and elm-tree, The ...

____________________ Footnotes: "Dictionary of English Plant Names," by J. Britten and Robert Holland. 1886. 2. "English Plant ...

CHAPTER XIV. PLANT LANGUAGE. Plant language, as expressive of the various traits of human character, can boast of a world-wide a ...

wherein one may occasionally find a popular or traditional symbol; but, as a rule, these expressions are generally the wild fanc ...

Then, again, the cypress, in floral language, denotes mourning; and, as an emblem of woe, may be traced to the familiar classica ...

Myrtles offered up to thee." To the same goddess was dedicated the rose, and its world-wide reputation as "the flower of love," ...