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several woods—especially on the Cotswold Hills—that are to 
be avoided when the plant is in flower. The woods are closely 
carpeted with them, and every step you take brings out their 
foetid odour. There are many species grown in the gardens, 
some of which are even very sweet-smelling (as A. odorum and 
A. fragrans); but these are the exceptions, and even these have 
the Garlick scent in their leaves and roots. Of the rest many 
are very pretty and worth growing, but they are all more or less 
tainted with the evil habits of the family. 
GUltflowers, see Carnations. 
Ginger. 
(1) I must have Saffron to colour the Warden pies—Mace—Dates? none, 
that’s out of my note ; Nutmegs, seven—a race or two of Ginger, but 
that I may beg.— Winter’s Tale , iv. 3, 48. 
(2) Sir Toby. Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be 
no more cakes and ale ? 
Clown. Yes, by St. Anne, and Ginger shall be hot i’ the mouth too. 
Twelfth Night , ii. 3, 123. 
(3) First, here’s young Master Rash, he’s in for a commodity of brown 
paper and old Ginger, nine score and seventeen pounds, of which 
he made five marks ready money; marry, then, Ginger was not 
much in request, for the old women were all dead.— Measure for 
Measure, iv. 3, 4. 
(4) I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped Ginger. 
Merchant of Venice , iii. 1, 9. 
(5) I have a gammon of bacon and two razes of Ginger to be delivered as 
far as Charing Cross.—1 st Henry IV, ii. 1, 26. 
(6) Orleans. He’s of the colour of the Nutmeg. 
Dauphin. And of the heat of the Ginger.— Henry V, iii. 7, 20. 
