And then he saw on the green a shining well, and five streams flowing from it, and the armies drinking water in turn, and the nine lasting purple hazels of Buan growing over it.
And they had a well below the sea where the nine hazels of wisdom were growing; that is, the hazels of inspiration and of the knowledge of poetry.
With that he gave Finn the whole of the salmon, and from that time Finn had the knowledge that came from the nuts of the nine hazels of wisdom that grow beside the well that is below the sea.
They went on through the wood, and after a while they came to an apple garden having red apples in it, and leafy oak-trees, and hazels yellow with nuts.
Since you with skill can touch the tuneful reed, Since few my verses or my voice exceed: In this refreshing shade shall we recline, Where hazels with the lofty elms combine?
Amid the tangling hazels as they lay, On the sharp flint were left to pine away.
Hazels may be propagated in an unusual way from the cuttings of branches, very much like roses, if these cuttings are placed in sand and kept warm and moist, although they do not strike nearly so readily as rose cuttings.
Hazels rose Tall and erect, with milk-white clusters hung, A virgin scene!
The hazels are all down, and the hollies pounded into birdlime.
Here, dipping into a little tunnel of living green, wherehazels met over a watercourse, Sally proceeded by a moist and muddy short cut to her goal.
Even the wild hazels suffered differing amounts of damage and have only partial crops of nuts because of the effects of the winter.
Round Werner's Eck the water runs; The hazels shiver and shake: The walls that have blotted such happy suns, Are seized with the ruin-quake.
The rugged heights seemed to clasp this one innocent spot as their only garden-treasure; and a bank of hazelshid it from the castle with a lover's arm.
At the right season you may still "Through the hazels thick espy The hatching throstle's shining eye.
The scholiast on Lucan describes the Druidic method of chewing acorns and then prophesying, just as, in Ireland, eating nuts from the sacred hazels round Connla's well gave inspiration.
Thus whoever ate the salmon of Connla's well was dowered with the wisdom which had come to them through eating nuts from the hazels of knowledge around the well.
These wells were in Erin, but in some instances the well with its hazels and salmon is in the Other-world,[1275] and it is obvious that the crimson nuts are the same as the food of the gods in Diarmaid and Grainne.
Across the road is Northwood, where, close by Eastman’s great school, are thick coppices of hazels and undergrowths that the primroses and bluebells love.
They are not woods of forest trees that beset this district, but hillside tangles of scrub oaks, of hazels and alders, where the wild-flowers make a continual glory in early spring.
This myth of the hazels of inspiration and knowledge and their association with springing water runs through all Irish legend, and has been finely treated by a living Irish poet, Mr. G.
Beyond the lilies and the roses the ferns were so deep that a child walking among them would be hidden from sight, even though he stood upon his toes; and beyond the fern rose many hazels and small oak trees.
I have a lot of hazels ready for pollenizing next spring.
The European and Japan chestnuts, the European hazels and the Japan walnuts have since come into considerable prominence in the same area.
I have three very fine American hazels I am going to use in crossing.
As soon as tea is over we prowl over the rockinesses of the little island, and creep among the hazels and pines and tiny oaks and undergrowth.
The ancient myth said that the nine hazels of wisdom grew round a deep spring beneath the sea, and the hazels were the hazels of inspiration and of poetry--so early in Ireland were inspiration and poetry made identical with wisdom.
My personal observations lead me to believe that the filberts and hazels are, in this country, remarkably free from the depredations of noxious insects.
When Ellah gave a grunt of thanks for the ear-trumpet, Monjoy laughed and said: “We’ll have a finer one than that when the hazels push on a bit.
White faggots gleamed against the tan of the inner bark, against the pink-budding thorn and the slate-purple brambles and the quick green of the hazels and elders.
A lean-to of thick base-bark screened them from the others, and the green tassels of the hazels dangled over them.
The hazels are very ancient in descent and each species likes to retain particular identity.
It would not seem worth while, excepting for the fact that it was a bad spring for grafting anyway, and hazels did not even catch on hazels, though they caught freely last year.
The grafting was done as an experiment in the hope that we might possibly utilize our waste lands which are covered with birch and scrub oak by grafting these trees with hazels and chinkapins.
A number of stocks of red birch, white birch and scrub oak grafted with European hazels and chinkapins, but the grafts all died.
The nut of the horn hazel is not of such good quality as that of the common American hazel, and I have not succeeded in making hybrids between this and other hazels as yet.
This filbert blight is very slight on native hazels but very serious on imported European hazels.
A few fine walnuts, pecans or hickories, or rows of chinquapins and hazels would add profit as well as beauty to these waste and unsightly places found on most farms.
I have grafted a number of other American and European hazels from this bush and I have sent scions to friends.
The fountain is a sacred fountain containing the sacred salmon; and the nine hazels are the sacred hazelsof inspiration and poetry.
That is a well at which are the hazels and inspirations (?
The purple hazels drop their nuts into the fountain, and the five salmon which are in the fountain sever them, and send their husks floating down the streams.
Be sure that he who planted these hazels on the bleak hillside was no common son of earth, but some wise and inspired mortal.
I look back upon our sojourn among those verdant hazels and see that it was good--one of those moments which are never granted knowingly by jealous fate.
I stayed the night at the Square, and we went down to Hazels next morning.
More, she consented to go to Hazels on the Saturday.
When Lady Agatha had suggested to him that he might give a week to Hazels before the summer was done, he had been eager about it, had even suggested dropping some of his other engagements.
Hazels is a pleasant place, and there has always been something of assurance and comfort about Agatha.
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