PLANT-LORE OF SHAKESPEARE 185 
As a garden shrub every one will grow the Myrtle that can 
induce it to grow. There is no difficulty in its cultivation, 
provided only that the climate suits it, and the climate that 
suits it best is the neighbourhood of the sea. Virgil describes 
the Myrtles as “ amantes littora myrtos,” and those who have 
seen the Myrtle as it grows on the Devonshire and Cornish 
coasts will recognize the truth of his description. 
M&W.,TK2 KITCHEBS. 
