. Freaks and marvels of plant life; or, Curiosities of vegetation. Plant anatomy. MYSTIC PLANTS. 437 selected as substitutes for the real palm, because they are generally the only things, at this season, which can be easily procured, in which the power of vege- tation can be ; Box was evidently in use in this country in the middle of the sixteenth century and it is possible that the use of box was discontinued on the plea that it was a Romish superstition ; although the bearing of palms was de- clared in 1536 "not to be contemned and cast away;" yet in Stow's Chronicl
. Freaks and marvels of plant life; or, Curiosities of vegetation. Plant anatomy. MYSTIC PLANTS. 437 selected as substitutes for the real palm, because they are generally the only things, at this season, which can be easily procured, in which the power of vege- tation can be ; Box was evidently in use in this country in the middle of the sixteenth century and it is possible that the use of box was discontinued on the plea that it was a Romish superstition ; although the bearing of palms was de- clared in 1536 "not to be contemned and cast away;" yet in Stow's Chronicle (1548) it is stated that "this yeere the ceremony of bearing palmes on Palme Sonday was left off, and not used as be- ; The ceremony of "blessing the box" is still continued in some of the Fig. 89. — Medicago countries of the echinus. — "Gardener's Another, and more humble plant, a kind of clover {Medicago echinus), found in the Levant, is held in reverence as a supposed. 1 See " Gardener's Chronicle " for a rtsumd of a sermon on one of these occasions, in which the symbolism of the box is insisted upon, April 19, 1873, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), b. 1825. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York, E. & J. B. Young
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