ung girls who suffer from atrophy are first made to
stand for some hours daily in the sheds when the wine pressing is
going forward. After a while, as they become less weak, they are
directed to jump into the wine press, where, with the vintagers and
labourers they skip about and inhale the fumes of the fermenting
juice, until they sometimes become intoxicated, and even senseless.
This effect passes off after one or two trials, and the girls return to
their labour with renewed strength and heightened colour, hopeful,
joyous, and robust. The [589] vats of the famous Chateau d'yquem
are the most celebrated of all for the wondrous cures they have
effected even in cases considered past human aid.

VIOLET.

The Wild violet or Pansy (_Viola tricolor_) is found commonly
throughout Great Britain on banks and in hilly pastures, from
whence it has come to be cultivated in our gardens.

_Viola_, a corruption of "Ion," is a name extended by old writers to
several other different plants. But the true indigenous representative
of the Violet tribe is our Wild Pansy, or Paunce, or Pance, or Heart's
ease; called also "John of my Pink," "Gentleman John," "Meet her i'
th' entry; kiss her i' th' buttery" (the longest plant name in the
English language), and "Love in idleness."

"A little Western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
And maidens call it--'Love in idleness.'"

From its coquettishly half hiding its face, as well as from some
fancied picture in the throat of the corolla it has received various
other amatory designations, such as "cuddle me to you," "tittle my
fancy," "jump up and kiss me," and "garden gate": also it is called
"Flamy," because its colours are seen in the flame of burning wood,
and Flame Flower.

The term "heart's ease" has signified a cordial which is comforting
to the heart. But the fact is that Pansies, "pretty little Puritans,"
produce anything but heart's ease if eaten, and their roots provoke
sickness so speedily that these are sometimes employed as an
emetic.

Dr. Johnson derived the word Pansy from Panacea, [590] as curing
all diseases; but this was a mistake, The true derivation is from the
French _pensee_, "thoughts," as Shakespeare knew, when making
Ophelia say: "There is pansies--that's for thoughts."

From its three colours it has been called the herb Trinity. A
medicinal tincture is made (H.) from the _Viola tricolor_ with spirit
of wine, u