Personality of plants

PERSONALITY OF PLANTS
supposed to possess the power of discovering
the location of lost or hidden riches and con-
ducting a human searcher to them. The Germans
named the Primose Schliisselblume, or
key-flower, in the belief that, if held in the hand,
it would unlock to its possessor the location of
buried treasure by some movement or other
manifestation. To this day, many country
people in Europe and America have implicit
faith in the ability of the divining rod to seek
out underground water. There are many enlightened
folk who claim that reported successes
of this method of picking well-sites are mere
coincidences, but in view of the wide-spread
reliance on this theory which is constantly meeting
the most practical tests, would it not be
open-minded to suggest that possibly the
branches of the rod do make some slight movement
toward the hidden water with which they
have a natural affinity?
As mentioned in a previous chapter, young
people through all ages have gone to flowers for
counsel when in love. The most frequent masculine
question has been "Does she love me?"
The flowers have given the answer in a variety
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