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THE~ GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
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PLANT HOUSES, 
ORCHARD HOUSES, GREENHOUSES, 
CON SERVATORIES, &c. 
A Medal hii been awarded by Her 
t the International re Maj se ipa 
Mr. WILLIAM EDGCUMBE RENDLE, 
3, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, London, for his 
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1874. 
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THE FOLK-LORE OF NUTS. 
ae oe point which calls for notice in 
ection with the folk-lore of Nuts is 
that nei is a spe ci 
great antiquity, and its retention in fo present 
day is another illu stration of that natural con- 
Erected ee n ay i to illustrate the 
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Rendle’s Patent Woking Clematis matis House. 
GREENHOUSES, ORCHARD-HOUSES, &c. | 
ee is n na position to Contract for iy Build 
ie oe Gees nhouses, Ar cea Houses, or Con- 
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slides in 
complete plan of ventilation is secured. 
putty is Teens, and the Zine and Gl. i 
ae to the action of the atmosphere. When the sys 
nderstood, it will become universal. 
Lean-to Greenhouse, 30 feet long and 10 feet 
from £33 10s. 
_ These Houses are all portable, and can be removed and fixed 
“These re the Cheapest Glass structures ever Siereducnd and 
intending purchasers orc Grenke should compare the above 
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“Tt is pepeni that 1500 ont tod aS of Glass can be 
the building i in one hour n, añd a: y damage: 
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system was Emel? and satisfactori the heavy showers 
on = dnesda ot soem not being ke lighten p Span water 
Important Testimonial 
` From Mr. James Litter, Gardener to Major BRIDSON, 
Rockend, Torquay. 
: “ Rock end Gardens, September 1, 1874.” 
The Houses you have ip for Major Bridson have 
given the highest satisfaction, ny A arh much credit. 
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ose. 
planting or reaping has, of course, its proper 
this season, at first indefinite within 
certain limits, was gradually restricted until one 
special day was by general use set apart for 
Reformation times, rendered them easily remem- 
bered. That this was the c is readily seen 
by reference to any sixteenth century Herbals 
or books upon farming subjects. Thus Tusser, 
in his Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry 
(first published in 1588), says that white Peas 
Beans at Saint Edmund the King” (November 
20). Itis unnecessary to multiply quotations, 
which may be found in plenty in any old book 
of bishandry, and many of which are, a the 
Gor fnstarice, is the direction freque ent sae iven 
in Herbals to gho certain plants “ between 
the two Lady Days.” The title Lady Day is 
now restricted, in ea parlance, to March 25 
(the Feast o the Annunciation), but in former 
times each feast of the Blessed Vi was so 
called, and “the two a Days ” in ‘the case 
the Fi of her Assum 
cited are 
(August 1 vs which is stil retained in ‘he 
calendar certain (2. Ly hie 
of companies 
Stationers’), and that of her Nativity (Sept 
ber 8). Tusser has the same days in view 
when he says— 
‘í Pare Saffron between the two Saint Mary's days.” 
This regard for church spare still holds its 
try districts, although its 
Thus noting is more com- 
setting certain se certain crops 
is at the time of the far "the was” which 
at their ere usually connected with the 
feast of the Gite to whom the parish church 
was dedicated, or with some other church 
festival. 
To return to our Nuts, which areresponsible 
for this digression, it appears that a particular 
Cross Day,” in 
There is, however, ae peculiarity about this 
while it was regarded by some as 
the correct thing to gather nuts on Holy-rood 
Ei x 5 eds or | a te ro 
and— 
“ This day, they say, is called Holy-rood Day, 
And all the youth are now a-nutting gone.’ 
It was, also, formerly a custom at Eton that 
“on a certain day” in September, probably the 
14th, the Eton boys should have a holiday for 
says, “On some particular day of rl or 
October, I ie the precise date, about the 
time when 
that in Sussex, Saint Matthew’s Day (Septem- 
was sometimes observed as a nutting 
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y. 
So much for one side of the question. Turn- 
ing to the other, we must admit that there was 
rege of meeting the devil! This, too, is no 
new notion. “ Poor Sirat in 1709, says— 
“ The devil, as co n people say, 
Doth go Sinto 4 det Holy-rood Day ;’ 
and this festival appears to have been popularly 
known in various places as the “ Devil’s Nutting 
From different notes in the volume of 
ef was existing ata recent date in 
Kent, East Sussex, and Lincolnshire, 
i in the last named county the inter- 
Evil One was not specia le 
being c 
e kind.” So Strange and unusual a super- 
aiio- W was sufficient to deter people in 
a Sussex from Passing along the lanes of 
village—must have a remarkable origin, 
a of this no trace exists in any of the books 
to which hunters after folk-lore ee refer for 
information of this kind. © His Satanic Maj 
j vegetab 
fr his $} Synopsis heen we ef 
= it is wid by some that i 
he d—— casts his club over them, which is a 
fale: x 
n abundant crop of nuts has several signi- 
fications. In old times it was believed that it 
was indicative of a good Wheat harv 
ief which is referred to by Virgil and 
the people, e, that the yeere which yeeldeth plentie 
of nuts doth also yeeld many marriages ;” while 
in Hertfordshire and other parts of England, as 
many itimate # 
itself enoe greatly upon the 
We read in 
ae others looked upon it as a thing to be 
voided, The former are represented by tı 
that that “if Midsummer Dap 
rainy, the Hazel 
