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latea and Carophyllus silvestris. We do in Eng- 

 lish, in most places call the first, or narrower-leaved 

 kinds, Sweet Johns and all the rest Sweet Wil- 

 liams; yet in some places they call the broader- 

 leaved kinds that are not spotted Tolmeiners and 

 London Tufts; but the speckled kind is termed by 

 our English Gentlewomen, for the most part, Lon- 

 don Pride. We have not known of any of these 

 used in physic." 



These spicy pinks and luscious July flowers and 

 the simple Sweet-Johns and Sweet- Williams as well 

 recall the lovely lines of Matthew Arnold: 



Soon will the high midsummer pomp come on. 



Soon will the musk carnations break and swell, 



Soon shall we have gold-dusted Snapdragon, 

 Sweet-william with his homely cottage smell, 



And stocks in fragrant blow; 



Roses that down the alleys shine afar, 

 And open jasmine in muffled lattices 

 And groups under the dreaming garden trees 



And the pale moon and the white dreaming star. 



VI 



Marigold and Larkspur 



MARIGOLD (Calendula officinalis). Shake- 

 speare was devoted to the marigold. He always 

 speaks of it with poetic rapture. 



