Silberrad, Una Lucy, 1872-, Nixon, Mima, Lyall, Sophie, joint author · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 81
her altars on theFeast of the Purification,—when they, the FairMaids of February, as they were called, were theonly maids who had any right within those walls.But since they flourish equally well in old shrub-beries and orchards unconnected with monasteriesand monastic history, it looks rather as… … * ■$:* AG1 ^ CROCUS AND EARLY SPRING FLOWERS 41 Somer, no doubt, is another form of Zomer(summer), though snowdrops no more then thannow bloomed nor yet were planted in summer;Sottekens remains, to me at least, a mystery. Thefirst snowdrops came from Germany and Hungary,and the later blooming sort…
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