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but as a border plant it cannot compete with its rival relation, 
the Hyacinthus orientalis , which is the parent of all the fine 
double and many coloured Hyacinths in which the florists have 
delighted for the last two centuries. 1 
t>arlocfes, or Iborfeocfts. 
Crown’d with rank Fumiter and Furrow-weeds, 
With Harlocks, Hemlock, Nettles, Cuckoo-flowers. 
King Lear, iv. 4, 3. (&<? Cuckoo-flowers.) 
Dr. Prior was of opinion that the Hardock or Hordock was 
the Burdock, and Schmidt was of the same opinion, but the 
Burdock is not one of “the idle weeds that grow in our 
sustaining corn,” and Professor Skeat says that it is a wild 
guess that must be rejected, and suggests instead the Corn 
Blue Bottle. This certainly seems the more probable. (See 
Skeat’s Introduction to FitzHerbert’s “Book of Husbandry,” 
1534 . P- XXX.) 
Ibawtborns. 
(1) There’s a man hangs odes upon Hawthorns and elegies on Brambles. 
As You Like Lt , iii. 2, 379. 
(2) This green plot shall be our stage, this Hawthorn-brake our tiring 
house .—Midsummer Night's Dream , iii. 1, 3. 
(3) Your tongue’s sweet air, 
More tuneable than lark to shepherd’s ear, 
When Wheat is green, when Hawthorn-buds appear. 
Lbid ,., i. I, 183. 
(4) I cannot cog and say thou art this and that, like a many of these lisping 
Hawthorn-buds .—Merry Wives, iii. 3, 76. 
1 “‘Dust of sapphire,’ writes my friend Dr. John Brown to me of 
the wood Hyacinths of Scotland in the spring; yes, that is so—each 
bud more beautiful itself than perfectest jewel.”— Ruskin, Proserpina, 
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