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SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1875. 
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VERVAIN. 
RINDON, at p. 162, enters at some 
regarding it ; and the following brief notes upon 
the folk-lore of the Vervain of more modern days 
may serve as a supplement or appendix to his 
Vervain—just th 
ruids is hardly likely zi have been the little 
Brookweed which now bears the name—a vast 
amount of legendary lore has been connected 
with Verbena officinalis, not only in our own 
country, but in other parts of Euro 
Beginning where it is said that acu should 
begin—^ at home" —we find Vervain prescribed 
but also in later times in his Garden 
a manuscript of the 
time of Elizabeth, which was recited while the 
plant was being gathered. It runs as follows :— 
** All hele, thou holy herb Vervin, 
That I doe now goe about,” 
Another version of this rhyme may be found 
o the True Church (1624), 
use to weare 
Vervain against blasts ; and when they gather 
it for this purpose, first they crosse{the herbe 
with their hand, and then they bless it thus: 
* Hallowed be thou; Vervain !’ &c.” 
The wearing of Vervain root round the neck 
the 
charm to 
told that the Mm worse to be attached to 
a white satin ribbon to ensure its efficacy ; ; and 
Mr. Conway also refers to its use in this 
manner. In t South of England, ac- 
cording to Francis, it is also looked upon as 
the plant formerly possessed in England show 
i it must have been well known, and held in 
ome popular estimation—such names, for 
кета д аз E s Moist Blood, Holy Herb, 
and Simpler's Joy 
In many parts arts of France the Vervain is 
gathered with mysterious ejaculations under 
different aspects of the moon, and is su 
ous diseases, not only of the у, 
bat also of the mind. The mere possession of 
it brought “good luck” to the owner; all 
maladies were cured by it; “hearts that had 
been long estranged” were brought together by 
its influence, and in love affairs its power was 
great, as it caused an attachment to spring u 
between the person we d the “beloved 
object.” At the present day it is in repute in 
France as a wound-herb; it is collected on 
Midsummer Eve, and kept in the houses, noo 
its presence is deemed a good ome 
gathered in some parts of Spain on the same 
day, and is = also preserved in houses as 
an ven orc 
many a que made of Vervain, or into 
et 
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believed also to preserve а house protected by 
it from thunder. In a ARD it is believed that 
water in which Vervain and Rue—plants fre- 
quently: associatec for ff tied tical purposes —have 
been pa iled, will render a gun in which it has 
been p ured оГ an unerring aim; and уса 
which. fas touched a midsummer fire will snap 
. В.А. 
New Garden Plants. 
VANDA TERES, Lindl., VAR, CANDIDA, 
rd Crewe, in Cheshire 
ca vr Mr. Whittaker, his gardener 
that a plant may be spared for Paris. 
that the plant wants the brightest sunshine, and while 
the English or northern Germans regard it a 
thing to y bb able to flower the plant, every one at Paris 
succeeds in flowering it most freely. 
after he left. I had эшо 250 flower-spikes open at the 
same time, Some few years ago I placed a good tuft 
on an old stump of Bauhi inia ungula. It was thus fully 
exposed theri m : * always flowered m profusely. 
Before it has never given a spike. n it flowers it 
is all ders am d shrivelled.” H. G. Kc v T 
PESCATOREA LAMELLOSA, Ӯ, 
his is pet much шке Mr. Day's lovely Pescatorea 
er 
The flowe any I saw 
dni: ite, Жузун 
with brown dorsal keels, and Vlr ч 
the mark of distinction used 
one soli y, and o at the front side; 
they ar one fr other down to the 
is one of the pee New 
M. ‚ for which 1 Med to thank Messrs. Veitch, 
[The plant was «бөл ited at a recent m of the 
Royal Horticultural Society.] ZZ. С. Rchb, f 
NOTES FROM A LANCASHIRE 
уеннан of your readers who so kindly 
nth by month last year, I de- 
scribed the varied saison of my garden, may e 
feel some little interest in its present are tio 
It is Mrs. Barbauld who speaks of n 
as waiting ‘‘for the full strength of te ун апа 
now, as the Carnatio o bloom, I 
and if we have still some gains to hope for, we 
have losses Wood. 
What a tangle of blossoms there is on the 
My spring garden'has been particularly successful. 
Beds. of Nemophila, d то — X Saponaria 
red Silene, autumn d then ed 
have been very БШШ; рез" ‘all qe de Vine 
Р, Da 
transverso subcordato oblongo retusiusculo utri 
кро a lamellis ens on emn in medium 
е 
; ungue 
utrinque angulate. — Zygopetalum lamellosum : fios me 
pet mi Bin dorsis brunneis ; columna antice rufo striata 
