The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-07-19

in Il months. No yeiow broom
should be brought into the house in
May. The house with bergamot near
IL Is never free from sickness. 4 plant
q ~heliotrope in church will keep in
their places any untrue wives in the
congregation.
Beware OF being overload OF
flowers: YOU viii never marry. Be
ware also Of picking the red field
lily 1t viii give YOU rockies. Thistles,
though highly decorative. YOU should
not gather, as the act foretells folly,
approaching dispute" In general,
though. it is good luck to gather flow
ers. To pick roses IS a happy omen.
and as for Nolets. complete success
IN all undertakings follows. Yarrow
is a flower that will enable a girl TO
see her true love. but she must pluck
1t from the grave OF a young man.
If she n saffron instead on the
grave, that is a good omen for some
one: If there are three yellow lilies
the man has been unjustly executed.
In England there is a superstition hat
leaves together they will love one an
other. Should he. after marriage,
prove recalcitrant. here IS a way to
win him hack: Take a piece Of the
root Of a w~allflower and a p~artridee's
heart. roll them into a ball and make
Nii' 1Ai'AA ca ~ ! ~ Oh ~ hAA'
whether Your lover loves you, crush
some bleeding heart If the Juice is
red, he does; if it is white, he does
not.
Witches. of course. must be cXclud-
ed from the house. The Chinese bring
this about-or think they DO. which
amounts to the same thing-hy sns-
pending lunches of herbs and magic
plants over the door. In Canton it is
a New Year custom. after cleaning
the house. to put near the door a
pair of scrolls of the lucky red color
with some such inscription as:
Leaves of the Mox3. like banner,
procure a hundred hlessinGs.' In
England hawthorn used to he hung
over the entrance TO 4 house i'm May
to keep of witches. on May Day the
witches, as we'll as the fairies. are in
the gore. so choose some other time
for burning it. If YOU don't believe
there are any witches there are Ger
man folk who will tell you to carry a
four-leaf clover on Christmas Eve
and let your own eyes convince YOU.
1t IS good luck to eat the first May
flower you see in the spring. IF it is
a crocus. let it alone; IN Austria they
say it draws away ones strength. Nor
must YOU dig up a cuckoo flower and
tempt luck by moving a Wild daisy
into the garden. In Egypt the ane-
none is one of the lucky flowers Of
/ L liz " q il1 liAhA 'At( 80 ~ 49,
and, if not disturbed, 1t Will cure dis
ease.
on the French coast it is useless
to try to catch fish unless the waters
are first strewn with flowers by the
fshermen's wives and daughters. In
DevOnshire they regard it IS unlucky
to plant a bed Of lilies of the valley;
the one doing so will die in the course
of twelve months. The Turk sees mis-
fortune in so slight a thing as the fall
of a rose petal and Will sometimes
guard against such dropping by care
fully picking the flowers before they
fall apart. In Samoa the head of a
corpse is wTeathed in flowers to aid
in getting admission to paradise.
The Japanese see q significance IN
the fact that the flowers Of the red
camelia drop off like heads Of decapl-
tated men and bar it from certain oc-
casions. Iris, being purple. they Will
not have for weddings, nor are the
orchid, azaIea, gentian and daphne
favored for felicitous occasions. In
Germany the flowers of the chamo-
mile are so many soldiers dying &C
cursed for heir sins. Breton peasants
will tell YOU that the golden herb,
which. they lain shines from altar,
ciyas deyOut persons, suitably attITed,
the power to learn the language or
dogs. wolves and birds If they fall
asleep on it. The stolen rose grows
best" 1t is a sign Of death if q snow
bal bush blooms twice the same year,
and so on through hundreds ana nun
dreds of instances
.'TIEE FLOW OF WATER.