[PDF.46cd] Oxford Dictionary of Plant-Lore (Oxford Paperback Reference)

Oxford Dictionary of Plant-Lore (Oxford Paperback Reference)

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 | #480955 in Books |  1997-05-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.69 x.94 x5.06l, | File type: PDF | 464 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Margaret G Ardwin|Excellent reference book on human use and superstitions of plants. Info was collected in Great Britain and Ireland.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A comprehensive lore guide!|By Heather OBrien|I am very pleased with my purchase of this book. It serves as a dictionary full of i| ||"In a logical world, our readiness to believe in the magical and therapeutic qualities of everyday plants would diminish as scientific knowledge grows. Roy Vickery, the curator of flowering plants at the Natural History Museum, shows that this is not so, by

Why do the Welsh wear a daffodil on St. David's Day and the Irish a shamrock for St. Patrick? Why do we send flowers to weddings and funerals or kiss under the mistletoe? From elderflower tea (`a universal panacea') to lesser yellow trefoil (the true shamrock), from corn dollies and crop circles to plants which forecast the weather (pennywort and scarlet pimpernel), this dictionary is a vivid and colorful account of British and Irish plant-lore.

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