Close at hand there is also a Shakespeare Garden, designed to show 

 what were the garden-flowers commonly in use in his time. Here we 

 may again find Rosemary — that sweetly aromatic shrub, so old a 

 favourite in English gardens. Its long-enduring scent made it the 

 emblem of constancy and friendship. And here should be Rue, also 

 classed by Shakespeare among " nose-herbs," and the sweet-leaved 

 Eglantine, and Lads-Love, Balm and Gilliflowers (our Carnations), a few 

 kinds of Lilies, Musk and Damask Roses, Violets, Peonies, and many 

 others of our oldest garden favourites. 



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