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find very few Primroses so late in the season- The ridiculous lines 
quoted on the same pao;e, from a certain John Davors, might, with ad- 
tage to the book, have been omitted: 
** Among the Daisies and the Violets blue, 
Red Hvacinth, and yellow Daffodils, 
Purple Narcissus, like the morning rays. 
Pale Gander-grass, and azure Culverkejs." 
This cockney rhymer never gathered his blue Daisies, red Hyacinths, 
purple Narcissi, or azure Culverkeys on English fields. 
Page 143, ** Harlocks " he assumes to be Charlock {Sinapis arvensis, 
Linn.). This is not veiy likely. The word is spelt in the old editions 
" Hardocks," and the Hardock would seem to have been the Burdock 
\A7xtimny sp,], for harde and hourre are equivalent terms. 
Page 14-8. "Parmacety " he takes to be the Shepherd's-purse {Cap- 
sella Bursa-pasloriSy De Cand.). It was surely common spermaceti- 
ointment, which Hotspur says that the courtier recommended him. 
Page 164, He tells us that the locusts eaten by St. John the Bap- 
tist were the fruit of the Carob-ti'ee {Ceratonia Siliqua, Linn.). We 
refer him to the word used in the Greek text, axptSe?, which leaves no 
doubt that the insect so called was meant. Locusts are a very com- 
mon food of the desert Arabs. 
But beside these faults of commission, we find an extraordinary number 
of plants ejected from the " Garden;** not only those that are named in 
the Sonnets and other poems of Shakspeare, but many which pccur in 
passages familiar to every reader of his plays. We will name but a 
few of these 
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Apple. 
Cherry. 
Holly. 
Pea. 
Pink. 
Eye. 
Ash. 
Codling. 
Laurel. 
Peach - 
Plum. 
Tm"nip. 
Barley. 
Crab. 
Mallow. 
Pear. 
Prune. 
Vetches 
Bean- 
Currant. 
Myrtle- 
Pepper. 
Eadish. 
Cabba^re. 
Damson. 
Oat. 
Pine, 
Eaisin. 
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To conclude our remarks, we wish the author, who, up to a certain 
point, seems to be a very painstaking man, would revise his work 
thoroughly, and replace it with an edition that may do him and his 
publishers more credit. 
