Identifier: birdsnature111902chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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wned with Violets was a dis-tinction much sought after. Pindarwrites of Violet-crowned Athens, andin the Cyprea it is said that Violetswere among the perfumes employed byVenus to win from Paris the prize ofbeauty. No less esteemed were the purple blos-soms among the more rugged people ofthe North, for a Saxon legend tells howCzernebogh, god of the Vandals, livedwith his beautiful daughter in a statelvcastle. When Christianity swept throughSaxony, destroying all evidences of theheathen faiths, the god and his castlewere turned into rocks, and the lovelydaughter became a Violet, nestling amongthe crags. Whoever is fortunate enoughto discover the hidden flower will restorethe maiden and the castle to their originalform and may claim this Saxon Floraas his bride. In Norse mythology the Violet iscalled Tyrs flower, and this is the firstinstance in which the modest plant be-came disassociated from the realm oflove and assumed the guise of war. Tyrsviolet mantle, however, in later years, 134
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O ^ oo fell upon the great Napoleon, whoadopted the flower as his emblem. Hewas, in fact, called by his followersPere de la Violette, and upon going intoexile Napoleon assured his friends thathe would return with the Violets. Hencethe flower became the sacred symbol bywhich his followers recognized each oth-er. When asked, Do you like the Vio-let? if the reply was Oui the answererwas not a confederate. If, however, thereply came, Eh, bien, they recognized abrother conspirator and completed the sentence, It will appear again in thespring. During the middle ages the Violet be-came the chosen symbol to the minstreland troubadour, of loyalty and faithfullove. A blue Violet was the first lovetoken passed by Clemence Isaure througha hole in the wall of her convent gardento her noble lover, Count Raymond, ofToulouse, and in its association as abridal- flower Milton used it to carpetEves bower in Paradise. Charles S. Raddin. THE ROUND-LOBED LIVERWORT. (Hepatica hepatica.) All the woodland pat

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