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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



Ye lef is thicke schinede and styf. 

 As is ye grene jwy leef. 

 Vnche brod and nerhand * rownde 

 Men calle it ye joy of grownde." f 



FOUNTAIN, FROM AN ENGLISH MS. "SPECULUM. " C. 1450. B.M. 2838. 



In an old ballad, a noble lady is called, "The parwenke of 

 prowesse," the periwinkle being then used to typify excellence, 

 in the same way as the pink in Elizabethan times, " The very 

 pink of courtesy." 



Among yellow flowers in the same garden, the marigold, 

 or gold, as it is called in old writers, would be conspicuous : 



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nearly. 



Medical MS., Stockholm. Archeeologia, Vol. XXX. 



