. Cyclopedia of practical floriculture. Floriculture; Flower language. itdt llaxtt. f)ailianiclis birginiana. Natural Order: HamamelaceLCâWitch Hazel Family. WADA and various parts of the United States produce this luge shrub about as commonly as Virginia, from which it tJLines Its distinctive qualification; its name, the Greek appel- tne ot the medlar, has been misapplied b}' a mistake which It IS now hard to rectity. The small branches were formerly used to discover veins of water and precious metals; and there aie those who have inherited sufficient superstition to still have faith in their
. Cyclopedia of practical floriculture. Floriculture; Flower language. itdt llaxtt. f)ailianiclis birginiana. Natural Order: HamamelaceLCâWitch Hazel Family. WADA and various parts of the United States produce this luge shrub about as commonly as Virginia, from which it tJLines Its distinctive qualification; its name, the Greek appel- tne ot the medlar, has been misapplied b}' a mistake which It IS now hard to rectity. The small branches were formerly used to discover veins of water and precious metals; and there aie those who have inherited sufficient superstition to still have faith in their efficiency. We have seen wells said to ha\e 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 jet 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, not to turn in the hands of however. led a life too stirring for those vague beliefs Tliat superstition builds in solitude. âMiss Landon. /~VUR 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 â 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, .\boye its nightly closing flowers. W - WhittUr. HAT are these, so wither'd and so wild in their attire. That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth. .\nd vet are on 't? â nUT the witch-hazel's rtower Of golden vehet. opening when the storm Comes on the wings of w inter to deform, [hour Charms with contrasting bloom while ruin rules the -Aljred B. ^ â Shakespeare. KNOWâwhereon the sirens s \x\ island in a dark-green sea.
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