Flowers in legends and traditions

From the most remote times, flowers played a huge role in the lives of people among all peoples - among ancient Jews and Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Arabs, among Indians and Chinese ... then in the Middle Ages, both in the Gentiles and Christians, And of course, in our time. The flowers were of particular importance in wars and in feasts, and in solemn funeral processions, served to decorate altars and sacrifices, were magical and healing herbs, and guardians of the hearth. How many different interesting legends, historical legends and legends are connected with them!
These legends and traditions make up a book, written a hundred years ago by the famous botanist N. Zolotnitsky and at one time having frantic popularity. On these pages, you will open an amazing and colorful world of colors, in which, thanks to the encyclopedic education and literary talent of the author, as the history of mankind is reflected in a drop of water