8o THE SHAKESPEARE GARDEN 



both blush and yellow, that require to be set by 

 themselves apart." 



Tulips (which are never mentioned by Shake- 

 speare) were so many and various that Parkinson 

 considered it beyond his ability to describe them all 

 "for there is such a wonderful variety and mixture 

 of colors that it is almost impossible for the wit of 

 man to decipher them and to give names," and he 

 added that "for every one that he might name ten 

 others would probably spring up somewhere" and 

 "besides this glory of variety in colors that these 

 flowers have, they carry so stately and delightful a 

 form and do abide so long in their bravery, there is 

 no lady or gentlewoman of any worth that is not 

 caught with this delight, or not delighted with these 

 flowers." 



Then the anemones, or windflowers, "so full of 

 variety, so dainty, so pleasant and so delightsome, 

 so plentiful in bearing and durable," he tells us 

 were great favorites. 



Then the bear's-ears, 1 or French cowslips, each 

 one "seeming to be a nosegay of itself alone" and 

 of so many colors as "white, yellow, blush, purple, 

 red, tawny, murray, hair color and so on" and "not 



* Auriculas. 



