Flowers and Flower-Lore 12+

🔖 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES. . 657 5. (p. 422) See Dr. Prior's "Popular Names," s.vv. Ash and Lime; and for a similar history and connection between trees and articles made therefrom, cf. Bark (Diez, s.v. Barca), and Drus, Daru meaning wood, tree, and spear; Earle's "Plant Names," p. lxxii. ; Noir£, "Max Miiller and the Philosophy of Language," p. 96; cp. also Prior's note on the Elm; and similarly the Birch--a tree, and a whipping instrument. 6. (p. 434) On the Rose see Dr. Prior's " Popular Names," p. 199 ; Diez' "Romance Dictionary," s.v. Rosa; Earle's "Plant Names," p. civ. sea.; Academy, May 2nd and May 23rd, 1874; Ibid., November 4th, 1882 ; supra, p. 638, Note 1 ; " The Colour Sense," by Grant Allen, B.A. (Triibner& Co., 1879), p. 250 sea.; "Plant Lore of Shakespeare"; and "Flora Domestica," s.v. Hose. For the Saffron see Goldziher's "Mythology among the Hebrews," p. 150 sea. ; Homer's "Iliad," viii., 1, etc. ; Hare's "Guesses at Truth," p. 40: Fuerst's " Hebrew Lexicon," s.v. D315, p. 697; Mr. Gladstone on "The Colour Sense in Homer"; Nineteenth Century, October 1877. The foregoing will supply all needful material...