82 THE SHAKESPEARE GARDEN 



"the prettiest flower of a score in the garden; flower 

 gentle, or Floramour ; Flower-of -the-Sim ; 1 the Mar- 

 vel of Peru, or of the World; double marsh mari- 

 gold, or double yellow buttons ; double French mari- 

 golds; and the double red Ranunculus, or crowfoot, 

 "for exceeding the most glorious double anemone," 

 completes Parkinson's list for flowers to be planted 

 in the beds. The jasmine, white and yellow; the 

 double honeysuckle and the lady's-bower (clematis), 

 both white, and red and purple, single and double 

 are "the fittest of Outlandish plants to set by arbors 

 and banqueting-houses 2 that are open both before 

 and above, to help to cover them and to give sight, 

 smell and delight." 



Parkinson has not quite finished, however, with 

 the outlandish flowers for he calls attention to the 

 cherry bay, or Laurocerasus, saying that "the Rose 

 Bay, or Oleander, and the white and blue Syringa, 

 or Pipe Tree, 3 are all graceful and delightful to 

 set at several distances in the borders of knots, for 

 some of them give beautiful and sweet flowers." 



Furthermore Parkinson writes that "the Pyra- 



1 Sunflower. 



2 The banqueting-house does not signify a place for great enter- 

 tainments. It was a simple summer-house, or arbor, to which 

 people repaired after dinner to eat the dessert, then called "ban- 

 quet." 



3 Lilac-tree. 



