PLANT LORE, LEGENDS, and LYRICS.

PREFACE.

Having, some few years ago, been associated inthe conduct of a journal devoted to horticulture,I amassed for literary purposes much of thematerial made use of in the present volume.Upon the discontinuance of the journal, I resolvedto classify and arrange the plant lorethus accumulated, with a view to its subsequent publication, andI have since been enabled to enrich the collection with much Continentaland Indian lore (which I believe is quite unknown to thegreat majority of English readers) from the vast store to be foundin Signor De Gubernatis’ volumes on plant tradition, a Frenchedition of which appeared two years ago, under the title of LaMythologie des Plantes. To render the present work comprehensiveand at the same time easy of reference, I have divided the volumeinto two sections, the first of which is, in point of fact, a digest ofthe second; and I have endeavoured to enhance its interest byintroducing some few reproductions of curious illustrations pertainingto the subjects treated of. Whilst preferring no claim foranything beyond the exercise of considerable industry, I wouldstate that great care and attention has been paid to the revisionof the work, and that as I am both author and printer of mybook, I am debarred in that dual capacity from even palliatingmy mistakes by describing them as “errors of the press.” Intendering my acknowledgments to Prof. De Gubernatis and otherauthors I have consulted on the various branches of my subject,I would draw attention to the annexed list of the principal worksto which reference is made in these pages.

RICHARD FOLKARD, Jun.

Cricklewood, August, 1884.

Principal Works Referred to.

• Adams, H. C. ‘Flowers; their Moral, Language, and Poetry.’
• Albertus Magnus. De Mirabilibus Mundi.
• Aldrovandus. Ornithologia.
• Bacon, Lord. ‘Sylva Sylvarum,’ and ‘Essay on Gardens.’
• Bauhin, C. De plantis a divis sanctisve nomen habentibus (1591).
• Brand, J. ‘Popular A
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