Author: Minnie Olive Hess

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 9781330187401

Excerpt from The Legend of the Trailing Arbutus There is a beautiful legend connected with the dainty trailing arbutus, which runs as follows: The arbutus, most delicate and fragrant of all our wild flowers, was created as a climbing vine to cover Eve's bower in the Garden of Eden. She tended and watered the lovely plant, and learned to love it above all other flowers in the Garden. After the fall and banishment of our first parents from Paradise, the arbutus vine became so lonely and missed Eve so greatly that it crept down from its bower and trailed through the Garden and out into the world in search of her who loved it. It is still seeking her through woods and waste places in a search that never ends, and each springtime sends forth the delicate fragrance of its pink and white blossoms to tell of its faithfulness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.