'SHAKESPEARE GARDEN'
FLOWERS FOR TOURISTS
All interesting and original venture, recently suggested to English countrywomen as a means of supplementing their incomes in the tourist season, was to have a "Shakespeare garden" in which to grow flowers to sell to American and other visitors or even to send across the Atlantic, states an exchange. Tree such as Sycamore and Quince (Borneo and Juliet), Hawthorn (Henry VI), Elder (Cymbeline), Bay trees (Bichard II), Blackberry (Henry IV), and Chestnut and Hazel (Taming of the Shrew), might all be grown in a surrounding hedge, and beds for the smaller plants made round a sundial.1 In Hamlet, Bosemary, Pansy, Rue, Fennel, .Columbine, Grow-Flowers, Nettles, Daisy, Long ■ Purples (Orchis mascula), Violets, and Willow are all mentioned. In Cymbelino we have Primrose, Harebell, and Marygold; in All's Well that Ends Well, Sweet Marioram, and.Herb o' Grace. Winter's Tale is oven richer with its Daffodils, Saffron, Rosemary, Lavender, Mint, Savory, Carnations, Gillivors, Oxslips, Crown Imperials, Lilies, and Flowers de Luce. In Love's Labour Lost there are Daisy, Violet, Lady Smocks, Cuckoo buds; and in Mid-summer Night's Dream, Cowslip, Dog Rose, Wild Thyme, Woodbine, and Musk Rose. •
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1934, Page 15
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189'SHAKESPEARE GARDEN' Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1934, Page 15
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