A Tree in Your Pocket. Jacqueline Paterson Memory

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      First published by Thorsons 1998

      Copyright © Jacqueline Memory Paterson

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      And do you remember what secrets the trees told us as we lay under their shady branches on the hot midsummer days, while the leaves danced and flickered against the blue, blue sky? Can you tell what was the charm that held us like a dream in the falling dusk, as we watched their heavy masses grow dark against the silvery twilight sky?

      C. E. Smith, Trees

      CONTENTS

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

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1. THE ENGLISH YEW

2. THE HOLLY

3. THE PINE

4. THE HAZEL

       5. THE BLACKTHORN

       6. THE SILVER BIRCH

       7. THE APPLE TREE

       8. THE HAWTHORN TREE

       9. THE ASH TREE

       10. THE OAK TREE

       11. THE ENGLISH ELM

       12. THE BEECH TREE

       13. THE ROWAN TREE

       14. THE ALDER

       15. THE WILLOW TREE

       16. THE ELDER TREE

       17. THE POPLAR TREES

       CONCLUSION

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

       THE ENGLISH YEW

IRISH/GAELIC	Ioho
OGHAM
RUNIC
RULING PLANET	Saturn
ABILITIES	Guardian to the Door of Rebirth. Rest after the struggle of life. Divination. Dowsing. Bows. To do with the element of Earth.
SEASON	Winter
YEW	Taxus baccata. Evergreen. POISONOUS.

      The yew tree helped form the great primeval conifer forests which dominated the earth long before the advent of broadleaved trees. It lives for over 1,000 years and it is thought that many living yews pre-date Christ by many thousands of years. The Fortingall Yew in Perthshire is claimed to be up to 9,000 years old. Many yews are mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and one of the oldest weapons found is a crude yew spear from the Old Stone Age.

      The yew gains its capacity for great age from its particular growth of shoots or branches, which root into the ground and grow to form new trunks. These then join the main trunk and become part of it, which gives yews huge fluted girths. It takes 150 years for the main trunk to form and then the yew continues its growth widthways. In old age it continues to grow, even with a completely hollow trunk. This has given yew a reputation for immortality and has made it a symbol of life after death. The yew is common in churchyards СКАЧАТЬ