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Article: ROSEMARY'S CHRISTMAS LEGEND\ THE OLD WORLD EVERGREEN SHRUB CAN BE A USEFUL HOUSEPLANT IN COLD CLIMATES.(At Home)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- December 18, 2004
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Byline: Maureen Gilmer DIY Network
Nearly all old European plants figure somewhere in the folklore of the Nativity.
The most noteworthy plant tales involve the Holy Family fleeing to Egypt after Herod's edict to kill all infant boys. On that journey, Mary may have dried newly washed swaddling clothes on the branches of a plant. She may have rested beneath its shade. Its fruit could have fed her traveling family. Some plants are doomed to shame because they could offer her no benefit at all.
Rosemary, the popular culinary herb, can reach 6 feet tall in its natural (Mediterranean) habitat, where it falls into two of these legends.
One ...