. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. \-r^lg---> IXitiCli lliX:^.el &^ ^ailiaimliB tJtrginiana. Natural Order: Hamamelacex—Witch Hazel Family. ^ AN ADA and various parts of the United States produce this large shrub about as commonly as Virginia, from which it derives its distinctive qualification; its name, the Greek appel- lative of the medlar, has been misa
. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. \-r^lg---> IXitiCli lliX:^.el &^ ^ailiaimliB tJtrginiana. Natural Order: Hamamelacex—Witch Hazel Family. ^ AN ADA and various parts of the United States produce this large shrub about as commonly as Virginia, from which it derives its distinctive qualification; its name, the Greek appel- lative of the medlar, has been misapplied by a mistake which it is now hard to rectify. The small branches were formerly used to discover veins of water and precious metals; and those who have inherited sufficient superstition to still have their efficiency. We have seen wells said to have been so located, but how an unconscious piece of hazel should be more wise than man, is more than can be divined. A recent theory is, that it ' may be through some law of electricity not yet understood. The mode of procedure is in this manner: A branch that is forked is held,, one branch in each hand, the main end pointing upward; the moment that it passes over water, it turns around and points to the earth. It is said, however, not to turn in the hands of are il4^r^. HAVE led a life too stirring for those vague beliefs That superstition builds in solitude. —Miss London. /"kUR witches are no longer old ^-^ And wrinkled beldames, Satan-sold, But young and gay and laughing creatures. With the heart's sunshine on their features; Their sorcery — the light which dances When the raised lid unvails its glances, And the low-breathed and gentle tone Faintly responding unto ours, Soft, dreamlike as a fairy's moan. Above its nightly closing flowers. w —Whittier. HAT are these, so wither'd and so wild in their attire. That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth. And yet are on 't.' rjUT the witch-hazel's flower
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