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be satirized in the character of 'Justice Shallow.' 

 This also might well have moved him ! 



"Here, in the restored 'Knott Garden/ as every- 

 where in the grounds about New Place, flowers 

 Shakespeare's Flowers will clothe and wreathe and 

 perfume everything, all else being merely devised to 

 set them off musk-roses, climbing-roses, crab- 

 apples, wild cherries, clematis, honeysuckle, sweet- 

 briar, and many more. 



"By next year, the Trustees expect to have some 

 200,000 individual plants including, of course, the 

 crocuses, 'bold oxlips/ 'nodding violets/ 'winking 

 marybuds/ 'pale primroses/ and 'azured harebells/ 

 on the wild bank and lawn decking, in succession 

 through the months, the ground whereon the poet 

 trod, their millions of blossoms, with every breath of 

 air doing reverence, waving banners of gorgeous hue, 

 and flinging the incense of their delicious fragrance 

 in homage to the memory of William Shakespeare." 



