Note 278 — Chapter X · RELICS OF TREE-WORSHIP IN MODERN EUROPE
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W. Hone, Every Day Book, ii. 597 sq. Mr. G. W. Prothero tells me that about the year 1875 he saw a permanent May-pole decked with flowers on May Day on the road between Cambridge and St. Neot’s, not far from the turning to Caxton.