SHAKESPEARE’S GARDEN 
i 37 
the u Grete Herbal]/’ says: “ Pomegranat trees 
growe plentuously in Italy and in Spayne, and there 
are certayne in my Lorde’s gardene at Lyon, but 
their fruite cometh never with perfection.” So that 
Shakespeare may well have seen and known the tree, 
though not in fruit. 
