Brehon as an ingredient in lard and drinks. One of the more important celtic customs was in the production of mead(fermenting of honey with water), in medieval times the alcoholic drink had mystical and religious qualities, an noted example was Lindisfarne Mead, produced by the Celtic Monks on Holy island. The word ‘mither’ derives from the mether, which is a mead drinking vessel. People are said to get ‘confused and bothered as a result of too much mead’. Mead is also associated with the wife of Ailill and Sovereignty Queen, Medb. In Pagan times, Brehon law states that before a new
Theodore Luqueer Mead more attention of the breeding of amaryllis (hippeastrum), being greatly helped by Nehrling, who had a fine collection and allowed Mead to take what he wanted in the way of pollen for his experiments. Specimens with just a hair line color around each petal were intercrossed to produce nearly white varieties with a narrow border around each petal. His hybrid red and white striped ‘Mead-strain’ amaryllis also became the bulb of choice for many American southern gardens in the 1940s and 1950s. The American Amaryllis Society’s yearbook for 1935 was dedicated to Mead in recognition of his pioneer work with