Nature Study Corner
THE KEY THAT OPENS THE DOOR TO SPRING (Contributed by Hobnail Boots.) In Devon tho name “butter-rose” is given to the primrose, and in folk-lore it is one of lhs key flowers of the early year, and opens the door of spring. This legend is also connected with the cowslip. This flower has no long blossoming period like the primrose or the primulas.« The group of little hanging flowers of a cowslip is something like a bunch of fairy keys, and some old folklore stories say that these little keys had once the power to unlock the caverns where fairies stored their treas-
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)
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106Nature Study Corner Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)
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