schively] PLANTS MENTIONED IN SHAKESPEARE 375 



juniper poles, such as may serve for the making of arbours. The 

 waves and alleys must be covered and sewen with fine sand well 

 bet, or with powder of the sawing of marble, or else paved hand- 

 somely with good pit stone. 



This garden by means of a large path of the breadth of sixe feet, 

 shall be divided into two equal parts; the one shall contain the 

 herbes and flowers used to make nosegaies and garlands of, as 

 March violets, Provence gillo-flowers, purple gilloflowers, Indian 

 gilloflowers, small paunces, daisies, yellow and white gilloflowers, 

 marigolds, lily conually, daffodils, canterburie bels, purple 

 velvet flowers, anemones, corne flag, mugwort lilies, and other 

 such like, and it may be called the nosegaie garden. 



The other part shall have all other sweet smelling herbes, 

 whether they be suche as beare no flowers, or if they beare any 

 yet they are not put in nosegaies alone but the whole herbe be 

 with them, as Southern wood, wormwood, pelliborie, rosemarie, 

 jesamin, marierom, balm mints, peniroyall, costmarie, hyssop, 

 lavender, basil, sage, savories, rue, tansey, thyme, cammomill, 

 mugwort, bastard, marierin, nept, sweet balme, all good, anis, 

 horehound, and others such like and this may be called the garden 

 for the herbes of good smell'." 



Such may we picture Shakespeare's Garden to have been. 

 Here he often sat, pondering and composing. We may feel certain, 

 too, that he frequently wandered in the woods and meadows near 

 by, where he was well acquainted with plant life. 



Let us now turn attention to certain special flowering plants; 

 both wild and cultivated are represented. 



Columbine or dove plant has a curiously formed flower. It is 

 a member of the same order as buttercup — the Ranunculaceae ; 

 yet the floral parts are so irregular that an uninformed person 

 would never suspect the relationship. It is a native of many parts 

 of Europe and Asia, and America, and has become a garden 

 favorite, and doubtless was in the Elizabethian days. It is 

 mentioned in Hamlet, IV-V-180, when Ophelia says: 



"There's fennel for you and columbines." 



Marigold — A strong scented plant whose bright yellow flowers 

 of varying shades, render it a popular garden plant; it is also 

 a continuous bloomer and perhaps this it additional reason for 

 its selection. In Winter's Tale, IV, 4, 105, we read: 



