BEAUTIFUL SURROUNDINGS NOT ONLY ADD VALUE TO YOUR PROPERTY 
BUT TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE HAPPINESS OF ALL 
The Shakespeare Garden 
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gardens, now often growing wild. 
Picturesque names are the rule. Lady 
Smocks of Love’s Labour Lost were perhaps 
the cardamine pratensis, the flowers of 
which look like tiny smocks hung on a line 
and so called Our Lady’s Smocks. Cuckoo 
buds in the same play may have been butter- 
cups or cowslips. Today the name is given 
to the meadow cress. 
In Hamlet are mentioned the crants or gar- 
lands carried before a maiden’s coffin. In 
the same play are nettles, daisies and long 
purples or dead men’s fingers. The latter is 
the early purple orchis which blossoms in 
April and May. War’s Garland of Coriol- 
anus was the laurel. Bachelor buttons in 
The Merry Wives, by means of which success 
in love was divined, were the ancestors of 
those we have today. The Columbine while 
not so improved as now was yet a lovely 
flower. Honey stalks, Titus Adronicus, were 
the clover flowers which contain a sweet 
juice. 
The mandrake is introduced in King Henry 
IV, King Henry VI, Antony and Cleopatra, 
Romeo and Juliet and Othello. This was 
Aropa mandragora, the root of which was 
supposed to resemble the human form and 
resented being torn from the earth, causing 
madness and death as a result. Our gin- 
seng has a similiar shaped root. Much sup- 
erstition was attached to plants. Eringoes 
of The Merry Wives of Windsor, the sea 
holly, was supposed to possess aphrodisiac 
qualities. Fern seed (King Henry IV) made 
the person carrying them walk _ inyisible!. 
The holy chistle (Cardus Benedictus) was 
supposed to cure all diseases including the 
plague. Knot-grass (polygonum  aviculare) 
was said to check the growth of children. 
Samphire (Kink Lear) was the sea fennel, 
Crithorium maritimum, which used to be 
plentiful on Shakespeare’s cliff at Dover. 
The fleshy leaves were used as a pickle or a 
vegetable. There is a certain samphire, a 
glasswort, also used as a pickle. It grows on 
marsh land. 
Several vines were named. The woodbine 
(A Midsummer Night’s Dream) may have 
been the honeysuckle or the convolvulus or 
even a bindweed. The fumitory (Henry V) 
is a rapidly growing vine with rose blossoms 
and lacy leaves the flowers resembling half 
of the bleeding heart. The eglantine of A 
Midsummer Night’s Dream was of course the 
sweetbriar. The musk rose mentioned in 
the same play is no doubt the true musk 
rose which has single white blossoms in large 
tresses with a decided musk odour. This 
is said to be the ancestor of Cloth of Gold 
and possibly of Marechal Niel, a chance 
seedling. 
In Elizabethan times knots were popular. 
These were flower gardens laid out in intrica- 
ete patterns. The idea might not appeal to- 
day. But Shakespeare gardens would not be 
complete without a Morris plot near by. 
This was a plot where the sods were cut out 
as to form a chess board. Near, too, should 
be little ringlets or orbs, as they were called, 
of grass. These were tiny meadows of 
greensward where the fairies were supposed 
to dance in the moonlight. 
SOWING SMALL SEEDS IN MISSOURI 
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is a time saver when water is needed use eith- 
er a fine spray, very carefully or use a spoon 
and let water run down the sides of the jar 
and into the soil. Many seedlings that grow 
so slow can live on for over a year in their 
jar homes before transplanting is needed. 
Faster growing plants of course will have to 
be cared for sooner. I have any number of 
Begonias seedlings that [ have grown, using 
this method. One can find so much that is 
new so any of you who care to try will enjoy 
your plants more, seeing them grow from 
seeds. J 
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