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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 31 May 1930, Page 15

FIRST FLOWER OF SPRING The name "primrose" anciently appertained to the daisy. It. is written by Chaucer "primerole," from the French "primeverole." "Primerole" became changed to "primerolles" and "priiuvolles," and thus into primrose. Nob till the sixteenth century—certainly before Shakespeare's time, though probably not long before—it attached itself to the flower. It is hard to discover why one of our fairest spring flowers should be associated with ill-luck. In the western counties, for instance, one should never take less than a handful of primroses into a farmer's house. Neglect of the rule is believed to invite the destruction of the ducklings and chickens. Elsewhere it is held to be a magical flower, opening locks of doors to the many legendary treasure-caves and subterranean passages under hill and mountain ,sides, dating back from remote ages. Once upon a time, too, the primrose was deemed of use in medicine and cookery, though opinion seems to have been divided on the point. "Primroses ease pains in the head," we read ; "they aie profitable both for the palsy and pains of the joints." "They are now used dayly amongst other pot-herbs, but .in physicke there is no great account made of them."

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