Title: A tour round my garden
Identifier: cu31924031230711 (find matches)
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Karr, Alphonse, 1808-1890; Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: London : F. Warne ; New York : Scribner, Welford and Armstrong
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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THE PEONT. 157 The peony was formerly, however, much celebrated; it drove away tempests, broke enchantments, defeated witch- craft, and now and then cured epilepsy. Its name, pcEonia, came from Poeon, a celebrated physician, who employed it to cure Pluto, when wounded by Hercules. The root of the peony, therefore, was not taken lightly; it was at a certain hour of the night, and during a certain phase of the moon; and stiU further, it was necessary to take care not to be observed by the woodpecker, whilst digging it; whoever v/as observed by the woodpecker became blind. The peony is no longer anything but a beautiful and splendid flower, despised by amatem-s, and seldom seen but in poor gardens.
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