Snapdragons have been grown since the rise of the Roman Empire . The botanical name of the flower is Antirrhinum majus . In Greek , the word anti means " like , " while rrhinum means " snout . " The flower looks like the jaw and snout of a dragon . kid love snapdragons because squeezing the side of the flower makes the jaw open , then photograph shut when release . The blossom were originally white or imperial , but today come in all sort of coloring and sizes from 6 column inch to 4 foot marvellous .

Origin

Snapdragons uprise in the Mediterranean area and southerly Europe , and have scatter throughout the world . They were brought to America when colonists begin to populate the United States Department of State and planted them in gardens in almost every United States Department of State . Snapdragons are easy to grow and were give the championship of flower of the year in 1994 by the US National Garden Bureau .

Early History

The Romans and Greeks think snapdragon had the power to protect them from witchcraft . Descorides , the Hellenic physician wrote that trade protection would be yield to the person that wore snapdragons around their neck opening . In the medieval period , snapdragon were think to be the guardians of European castles and were planted near the William Henry Gates . Women boiled snapdragons and applied the resulting infusion to their face to keep them beautiful and restore youth .

Folklore

Early German society retrieve a cluster of snapdragons hung near a babe would keep the baby from being afraid of vicious strong drink . In Russia , snapdragon were believed to further the body ’s get-up-and-go and vegetable oil was made from the seeds and used like butter .

1700s and 1800s

Thomas Jefferson noted that he grow snapdragon in his garden in the recent 1700s . In the prissy era , a sweetness of snapdragons usually meant a proposal was coming presently . cover a snapdragon in the clothing was supposed to make a person enthralling and alluring . In the Victorian Language of Flowers , snapdragons either meant deception or benignity .

1900s to Today

Snapdragons were considered one of the most popular cut flowers during the 1950s . Breeding started then and give rise several popular varieties of the flower . The variety called ' Rocket ' bring home the bacon six All American Silver Awards in Horticulture in the previous 1960s . Another type of snapdragon was developed in the sixties and it did not have the schnozzle and jaw kind . Instead it looked like butterfly wings and was called " Bright Butterflies . " In the early 1970s yet another soma was developed called " Madame Butterfly " and looked similar to the butterfly stroke character but had superfluous petal in the middle and was called the duple azalea form . Today we have the three types of snapdragon include the dragon jaws , butterfly stroke and double azalea , all of which are still very pop in gardens all over the world .

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