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SHAKESPEARE’S GARDEN 
used to make nosegaies and garlands of, as March 
violets, Provence gilloflowers, purple gilloflowers, 
Indian gilloflowers, small paunces, daisies, yellow 
and white gilloflowers, marigolds, lilly conually, 
daffodils, canterburie bels, purple velvet flowers, 
anemones, corne flag, mugwoort lilies and other such 
like, and it may be called the nosegaie garden. 
“ The other part shall have all other sweet 
smelling herbes, whether they be suche as beare no 
flowers, or if they beare any, yet they are not put in 
nosegaies alone but the whole herbe be with them, 
as Southern wood/ wormewood, pellitorie, rosemarie, 
jesamin, marierom, balme mints, peniroyall, cost- 
marie, hyssop, lavander, basil, sage, savorie, rue, 
tansey, thyme, cammomill, mugwoort, bastard 
marierim, nept, sweet balme, all-good, anis, hore- 
hound, and others such like, and this may be called 
the garden for herbes of good smell. . . . 
a These sweet herbes, and flowers for nosegaies 
shall be set in order upon beds and quarters, of 
such like length and breadth, as those of the 
kitchen garden, others in mazes made for the 
pleasing and recreating of the sight, and other 
some are set in proportions made of beds inter¬ 
laced and drawen one within another or broken 
off with borders or without borders/’ * 
Such was the garden in which the poet may have 
spent some at least of his summer hours half-buried in 
his arbours of woodbine and sweetbriar, the air quiver¬ 
ing in the hum of insect-life. Nor need we trace the 
development of gardens any further. Yet to those 
who wish to do more we here add a brief list of 
authorities, looked upon in Shakespeare’s time as such. 
They commence with “The Grete Herball” of Peter 
Treveris, which ran to six editions, and first appeared 
* M Maison Rustique,” p. 301, 
