☙ Bramble

Rubus L. (1753)
= Rubus fruticosus L. (1753).(Unplaced.)

Period English: bramble; common bramble; lawyers.RT:LOF (Facetious.)

Period French: ronce f.

Promptorium (1440): brymbyll.HNE

Turner (1548, 1568): bramble bushe.HNE

Gerard (1597): bramble; blacke-berry bush.HNE

Cotgrave (1611): ronce; bramble; brier.HNE

Sentiments:

Soucis, jalousieWorry, jealousy ◼ (1811); BD

EnvieEnvy ◼ (1819-1825); CLT LAM

OrgueilArrogance ◼ (1819-1825); CLT LAM

RemordsRemorse ◼ (1800-1825); CLT LAM

Envy ▲◆ (1825-1884); HP:FE O&B TTA FS ESP TM FSO LH HGA:OT HGA:LPF GAL RT:LOF JS KG

Remorse ▲◆ (1825-1884); HP:FE LH S&K HGA:OT GAL JS KG

Lowliness ▲◆ (1867-1884);GAL KG

I envy you ▲ (1884).CMK

Region: Europe.

Seasonality: Perennial; flowers late spring and early summer; fruits mid-summer to early autumn.

Period Colours: pretty pink flowers RT:LOF

Other Included Species:

Rubus saxatilis L. (1753),WFO stone bramble, Europe and Asia.HNE

Rubus leucodermis (Douglas ex Hook.) Douglas ex Torr. & A.Gray (1840)?,WFO whitebark raspberry, western North America.HNE

Rubus parviflorus Nutt. (1818),WFO thimbleberry, northern-temperate North America.HNE

Rubus arcticus L. (1753),WFO arctic raspberry, northern Europe.HNE

Rubus australis G.Forst (1786),WFO tātarāmoa, Aotearoa.HNE

Rubus deliciosus Torr. (1828),WFO Rocky Mountain raspberry, North America.HNE

Abécédaire de Flore

B. Delachénaye, 1811 ◼


EMBLÉMES TIRÉS DU RÈGNE VÉGÉTAL.


R.


Ronce     signifie soucis, jalousie.


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Le Langage des Fleurs

"Charlotte de La Tour" (Louise Cortambert), 1819 ◼


DICTIONNAIRE


E


Envie.     Ronce.


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O


Orgueil.     Ronce.


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R


Remords.     Ronces.


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Floral Emblems

Henry Phillips, 1825 ◆


ENVY


Common Bramble.—Rubus fruticosus.


"The bush my bed, the bramble was my bow'r."—Spenser.


This rough and prickly trailing plant is made the emblem of this unhappy disposition, because it carries thorns in its bosom. Pope says

"Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave,
Is emulation in the learn'd or brave."


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Oriental Text Book and Language of Flowers

Henry Gardiner Adams, 1850 ◆


Envy,     Bramble.

Sharp as the thorns round the bramble blossom,
Are the feelings and thoughts of an envious bosom.


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The Language of Flowers, or, Floral Emblems of Thoughts, Feelings, and Sentiments

Rev. Robert Tyas, 1869 ◆


THE BRAMBLE (Rubus fruticosus).—Envy.


The Bramble is very well known to us, growing everywhere in our woods and hedges. Its long trailing prickly stems throw themselves outwards from the hedges, by our road-sides and footpaths, and now and then lay hold of the loose parts of the garments of pedestrians, who cannot readily release themselves. On this account we have heard these branches facetiously called "lawyers," in some parts of England, where these gentlemen are supposed not to let a client off easily when they get one.

The bramble creeps along through hedges, strikes roots afresh, keeps off sun and air from the young shoots of the hawthorn, and seems to choke every thing which it comes near; just as envy, stealthily, treacherously, and spitefully, seeks to destroy the character and possessions of one who is seemingly prosperous in wealth, or friends, or esteem. Miss Twamley assigns the bramble to a girl who is crabbed, and displeased with another more amiable than herself,—

"Yon Bramble fling to Rachel Rann
So crabby and so spiteful;"

and most aptly does this wild, rough, and prickly plant befit this very objectionable trait.

Yet the Bramble affords us some pleasure by its pretty pink flowers, and perhaps still more by its fruit, the blackberry, which, when fully ripe, are very agreeable to the palate, and cooling ; if eaten before, they are unpleasant and sour, and if when over ripe, they are nauseous. They make agreeable tarts, but are somewhat insipid.


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