PERSONALITY OF PLANTS 
flowers. Along with fire, water, stars, sun, moon, 
animals, birds and graven images, our wood- 
roving ancestors ascribed supernatural attrib- 
utes to many trees and flowers. In various places 
and at various times, many different plants 
have been idolized as the material substance of 
an ethereal or spiritual being. Certain plant 
growths have been repeatedly designated as 
sacred, and even in the present day, untutored 
races have many plant superstitions. Tree wor- 
ship was common among the Celts and Teutons. 
The present day Christmas tree is a relic of 
primitive tree veneration. Even the American 
Indians worshiped trees at times. Man has 
been groping for God all through the ages. His 
tendency has been to deify those elements and 
things which he did not understand or which 
contained mystery. As soon as he became ac- 
quainted with the causes of these mysteries, the 
supernatural collapsed into the natural and he 
went searching after new wonders to call God. 
From the beginning of literature, the bards 
of every land have sung to and of the flowers; 
the prophets have used them as instruments for 
their sooth-saying; the believer in resurrection 
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