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there are some important gaps still to be supplied. 

 These are: Box, dwarf Box, both the ordinary 

 and the 'Gilded' variety; Thrift; Thyme, the Golden 

 and Glaucous, as well as the Wild; and that pretty 

 herb, known under its simple old English name as 

 'Lavender Cotton.' Of all of these, thousands of 

 plants are still needed. Similarly of Pinks, 

 'Streaked Gillyflowers'; 'Spike Lavender'; and of 

 Pansies 'Love in Idleness,' pale and dark 'purple 

 with Love's wound.' Of 'Eglantine' Sweet Briar 

 a few scores would be very welcome. 



"Such shortages are mainly due to the large 

 quantities of these plants required for the purpose 

 of filling the intricate-patterned beds of the 'Curious 

 Knotted Garden.' That kind of garden was an in- 

 variable adjunct to every house of importance in 

 Shakespeare's time, and the Trustees are laying one 

 out on what is believed to be the exact site of the 

 poet's own 'knotted garden,' modeling it on the 

 designs printed in the contemporary books on garden- 

 ing the designs being followed with a fidelity and 

 completeness unattempted, it is believed, for two 

 hundred and eighty years. At the same time, sug- 

 gestions have naturally been sought in Bacon's 

 famous Essay 'On Gardens.' . . ." 



