This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 edition. Excerpt: ... heath. Boethius relates that this liquor was much used by the Picts. The cottagers of heathy commons cut the turf with the heath on it, and after drying it, stack it for the fuel of their hearth and their oven. Bees collect largely both honey and wax from the flowers of the heath, but it is generally ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 edition. Excerpt: ... heath. Boethius relates that this liquor was much used by the Picts. The cottagers of heathy commons cut the turf with the heath on it, and after drying it, stack it for the fuel of their hearth and their oven. Bees collect largely both honey and wax from the flowers of the heath, but it is generally of a dark colour. Grouse feed principally on the seeds of the wild heath, for the seed-vessels are formed so as to protect the seeds for a whole year. Cattle are not fond of heath, although goats and sheep will sometimes eat the tender shoots. Natural order, Dumosce. Rhamni, Juss. A genus of the Tetrandria Tetragynia class. "Sing heigh ho! the holly, the holly." Shaksfeare. "No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar; paler some, Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun." The Greeks named this tree 'Ayp/a (agria); which is supposed to be derived from clypios, immitis, from its being armed with prickles. The admirers of Virgil's Pastorals will be reminded of the poetical contentions of Corydon and Thyrsis, when the ilex meets their view. "Beneath a holm, repair'd two jolly swains: Their sheep and goats together grazed the plains." Dryden. French naturalists have made the holly the emblem of foresight, because, they say, that the foresight of nature is admirably exemplified in this beautiful tree, which, when growing in its natural forest, protects itself by numerous leaves bristling with thorns, until it arrives to about the height of ten feet, when the leaves cease to be thorny, and are perfectly smooth and even, because it has no longer occasion to arm itself against an enemy who cannot reach higher; but we revere the holly branch with its spiny and highly varnished foliage, which reflects its coral berries, ...
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