72 THE SHAKESPEARE GARDEN 



"The other part shall have all other sweet-smell- 

 ing herbs whether they be such as bear no flowers, or, 

 if they bear any, yet they are not put in nosegays 

 alone, but the whole herb be with them, as Southern- 

 wood, wormwood, pellitory, rosemary, jessamine, 

 marierom, balm-mints, pennyroyal, costmarie, 

 hyssop, lavender, basil, sage, savory, rue, tansy, 

 thyme, camomile, mugwort, bastard marierum, 

 nept, sweet balm, all-good, anis, horehound and 

 others such-like; and this may be called the garden 

 for herbs and good smell. 



"These sweet herbs and flowers for nosegays shall 

 be set in order upon beds and quarters of such-like 

 length and breadth as those of the kitchen garden; 

 others in mazes made for the pleasing and recreating 

 of the sight, and other some are set in proportions 

 made of beds interlaced and drawn one within an- 

 other or broken off with borders, or without borders." 



This arrangement is interesting as not only show- 

 ing the division of flower-beds but that certain herbs 

 were used in nosegays. It did not, therefore, strike 

 Shakespeare's audiences as strange that Perdita 

 offered to her guests rosemary and rue on an equality 

 with marigolds, violets, the crown-imperial (then 

 so rare), daffodils, and lilies of all kinds. 



In William Lawson's "A New Orchard and Gar- 



