PLANT MYTHOLOGY 
are popular in such cases. There was a time 
when Peas were much in demand for sentimen- 
tal forecasts. On opening a pod, the number 
of green spheres discovered had a special signi- 
ficance. The dwarves were supposed to be es- 
pecially fond of Peas. Even the prosaic Onion 
has at times been used to explain the mysteries 
of the divine emotion. 
The Rose, most superb of flowers, has been 
extolled through all ages as the symbol of love. 
Incidentally, it is the national flower of Eng- 
land. The Scotch have a pretty ballad legend 
about Fair Margaret and Sweet William. The 
beautiful love of these two young people never 
realized itself in marriage. They both met an 
untimely death and were buried on either side 
of the neighbouring church. Soon there sprang 
up a climbing Rose vine from the grave of each, 
and meeting on the gable of the church, the lov- 
ers entwined in the lasting embrace which had 
been denied in life. Red Roses, because of their 
colour, have sometimes been supposed to have 
a relation to human blood. The medieval girl 
used to bury a few drops of her blood under a 
Rosebush in the hope that this action would 
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