Wild flowers as they grow, photographed in colour direct from nature . vidual Brambles show many peculiarities, for Brambles, unlike daisies, 91 Wild Flowers as They Grow do not consent to be cut out in one universal pattern. The Blackberry Bramble is found everywhere in our hedges— as plentiful as blackberries is a b5^word—but it is not quite so much nature-sown there as we are apt to think, for our forefathers used definitely to plant the Bramble in the hedges to fill up weak places. Thus an agricultural writer in Queen Elizabeths reign urges farmers in preparing a hedge to sow in the seed o
Wild flowers as they grow, photographed in colour direct from nature . vidual Brambles show many peculiarities, for Brambles, unlike daisies, 91 Wild Flowers as They Grow do not consent to be cut out in one universal pattern. The Blackberry Bramble is found everywhere in our hedges— as plentiful as blackberries is a b5^word—but it is not quite so much nature-sown there as we are apt to think, for our forefathers used definitely to plant the Bramble in the hedges to fill up weak places. Thus an agricultural writer in Queen Elizabeths reign urges farmers in preparing a hedge to sow in the seed of the bramble and haw, and he further advises : To plot not full Ad Bramble and Hull, For set no bar Whilst month hath an R, which, being interpreted, declares that Bramble and holly may well be set in all the months of the year except May, June, July and August. The Bramble is specially fitted for a hedge plant. Its stems weave with great rapidity in and out of the branches of other growths; they are thickly studded with hooked prickles which point backwards 92. BRAMBLE The Bramble and so are no hindrance to the plant pushing throughthe hedge, but which are of the utmost assistancein preventing it sUpping back. Anyone who hastried to draw a Bramble shoot out of the hedgeknows the difficulty of the task. Sometimes thelong whip-like shoots arch over and touch the groundagain, whereupon they send out roots and start newplants at that point. The older part dies, theapex left grows upwards and new branches strange cure once advocated for rheumatism wasto find one of these arches and then crawl under pains were supposed to be left behind ! Theseshoots were formerly used to bind down the sodon newly made graves, so Jeremy Taylor remindsus, The summer gives green turf and Bramblesto bind upon our graves. For bee-hives and hay-ricks they were equally serviceable. The leaves of the Bramble are remarkable forthe gorgeousness of the colouring that they carry inautumn d
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