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Title: The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry
Identifier: cu31924073984118 (find matches)
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Turner, Cordelia Harris; Turner, Cordelia Harris. Cyclopedia of practical floriculture
Subjects: Flower language; Flowers in literature
Publisher: Chicago : M. Warren
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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â gg^^ 1 i^etlerct ()t\xx. Natural Order: AraliaceceâGinseng Family. â VY is an evergreen vine, native of Great Britain, and attains the height of forty or fifty feet, sustaining itself by tufts of â fibers, which insert themselves into the crevices of the walls that support it. Hedera is its old Latin name, and, helix in Greek and Latin signifies twisted. After having grown to its utmost height, its climbing character ceases, " the leaf changes from a palmate to a lengthened oval shape; it then forms a bush two or three feet high, surmounted by an abundance of branches of inter- esting greenish flowers " that bloom in October. They frequently attain a great age. One is mentioned by De CandoUe as being four hundred and thirty-three years old, which measured six feet in circumference at the base, covering a surface of over seventy square yards with its hand- ^some foliage. It was used among the Greeks to decorate their heroes and poets, and also as a crown to Bacchus, although he is represented at other times crowned with grape leaves as the god of wine.
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QHE clung to hitn with woman's love, ^ Like ivy to the oak, While on his head, with crushing force. Earth's chilling tempest broke. TTAST he stealeth on, though he wears no wings, â *- And a staunch old heart has he! How closely he twineth, how tight he clings To his friend, the huge oak tree! And slily he traileth along the ground. And his leaves he gently waves, And he joyously twines and hugs around The rich mould of dead men's graves, Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green. âCharles Dickens, /S, T HAD a friend that lov'd me â I was his soul: he liv'd not but in me; We were so close within each other's breast The rivets were not found that join'd us first. âDryden, )2± â¢.-^^^

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