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                                               Intro Mary Garden

Mary-Flowers in the Popular Cultures
of Nations
1 - Germany

2 - Ireland

3 - Latin America

4 - Spain

5 - U.K.

6 - U.S.A.

7 - France (In process)

8 - Medieval Latin

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A number of Flowers of Our Lady are found to be growing wild
throughout Europe (as listed in MARIANA I), and their same
Mary-names, from the medieval oral popular religious traditions
of the countrysides, are accordingly found (in translation) in the
folklore studies and plant name dictionaries of a number of
European nations.

Other Flowers of Our Lady are found wild, and with equivalent
names, in only one or two European nations.

The few native idigenous U.S. flowers with Mary-names as their
common names in English (such as Ladyslippers, Ladies Tresses and
Ladies Mantle) have been so named because the same or similar
plants are so named in England.  Other indigenous U.S. flowers not
found indigenously in Europe, such as Marigolds and Passion
Flowers, were so named in Spanish in Latin America by Spanish
missionaries and then spread, with their names in translation, to
the U.S., Europe and throughout the world.

Many other flowers indigenous to Latin America were also given
Spanish religious names by missionaries, as recorded by field
botanists in their "floras" for various countries.

The white Madonna Lily, native to the Mediterranean, and Easter
Lily, were named commercially - the names then being adopted
world-wide.

Thanks to the present-day cultivation throughout the world of
flowers indigenous locally to various regions, Mary Flowers from
all regions are available as seeds and plants for those desiring
to grow them in outdoor Mary Gardens or indoor Dish Mary Gardens.