PERSONALITY OF PLANTS 
to cover their hands. In infancy, the fays are 
cradled in Tulips and throughout life, they use 
the Cowslip as a drinking cup, and seek shelter 
of the Wood-Anemone in wet weather. 
In some localities, it is believed that the 
fairies create the Toad-Stools. They are also 
reputed to gather colours from the sunset 
clouds, and with tiny but accurate brushes cover 
flower petals with their delicate tints. Fairies 
seldom reveal themselves to men, but the lucky 
possessor of a four-leafed Clover is sometimes 
privileged to see them. 
From time immemorial, men and maidens in 
love have sought the aid of their floral friends. 
Which of us is there who has not gone to the 
Daisy in some heart perplexity of youth, and 
made its petals say, “She loves me; She loves 
me not,” as we pulled them off one by one? An 
older and less known superstition says that an 
Apple seed placed on a hot stove will hop 
towards one’s future mate. 
In England, the Marigold is used for various 
love divinations, but in Germany it is carefully 
excluded from affairs of the heart. In that lat- 
ter country the Star-Flower and the Dandelion 
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