Getting 'amaryllis' to bloom - or old wives tales
Leo Martin (Sun, 22 Nov 2015 19:29:31 PST)
Dell wrote
A deranged gardener told me,
once, that if you strike the trunks
of fruit trees with a club, they will
feel threatened and produce more
blossoms ? and presumably, more
fruit. I tried this on my worsleya,
and it didn?t work.
This is an extremely old superstition, involving calling on the spirit of
the tree. You can read about it in The Golden Bough by JG Frazer, an
anthropologist of a century ago. This is a still-wonderful book I give to
friend's children when they graduate from high school.
Leo Martin
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Phoenix Arizona USA