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It was first printed in 1897 in British magazine The Sketch under the title "A Mad Song." [1] It was then published under its standard name in Yeats' 1899 anthology The Wind Among the Reeds. [1] It is especially remembered for its two final lines: "The silver apples of the moon,/ The golden apples of the sun."
Mistletoe has some unique characteristics and history that go way beyond smooching under the sprigs during the holidays. 8 Surprising Facts About Mistletoe You Probably Didn't Know Skip to main ...
European mistletoe (Viscum album) attached to a dormant common aspen (Populus tremula) Mistletoe in an apple tree. Mistletoe is the common name for obligate hemiparasitic plants in the order Santalales. They are attached to their host tree or shrub by a structure called the haustorium, through which they extract water and nutrients from the ...
Most mistletoe traded in the U.K. comes from mistletoe on apple trees in orchards in the English midlands, while the plant in the U.S. comes from a variety of trees, often from Southern states ...
There is an ingenious trick that the mistletoe plant pulls upon unsuspecting feathered dinner guests. And it helps it to spread among yonder branches. Mistletoe is a Christmas tradition.
"Lazy Afternoon", a song written by Jerome Moross and John La Touche for the 1954 musical The Golden Apple; covered on most of the albums below; Lazy Afternoon (Barbra Streisand album), 1975; Lazy Afternoon (Regina Belle album), 2004; A Lazy Afternoon (Harold Land album), 1995; A Lazy Afternoon (Shirley Horn album), 1979
Viscum album is a species of mistletoe in the family Santalaceae, commonly known as European mistletoe, common mistletoe, or simply as mistletoe (Old English mistle). [2] It is native to Europe as well as to western and southern Asia. [3] V. album is found only rarely in North America, as an introduced species.
Christmas tales: Soldiers through the ages find solace amid the hardships of war, echoing Bing Crosby's timeless song of longing.