344 THE SHAKESPEARE GARDEN 



Garden' (1613); and one from William Lawson's 

 'New Orchard and Garden' (1618); and they are 

 composed, as enjoined by those authorities, of box, 

 thrift, lavender-cotton, and thyme, with their inter- 

 spaces filled in with flowers. 



ROYAL ROSES FOR THE KNOTTED BEDS 



"In one point the Trustees have been able to 'go 

 one better' than Shakespeare in his own 'curious 

 knotted garden' to use his own expression in 

 'Love's Labour's Lost.' For neither King James, nor 

 his Queen, Anne of Denmark, nor Henry Prince ^of 

 Wales sent him so far as we know any flowers 

 for his garden. On his 356th birthday, however, 

 there will be planted four old-fashioned English 

 rose-trees one in the center of each of the four 

 'knotted' beds from King George, Queen Mary, 

 Queen Alexandra, and the Prince of Wales. Surely 

 Shakespeare, could he have known it, would have, 

 been touched by this tribute! 



"They will be planted by Lady Fairfax-Lucy, the 

 heiress of Charlecote, and the direct lineal descend- 

 ant of the Sir Thomas Lucy whose deer he is said 

 to have poached, and who is supposed to have had 

 him whipped for his offense, and who is believed to 



