The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare

The united vessel of their blood, Mingled with venom of suggestion-- As, force perforce, the age will pour it in-- Shall never leak, though it do work as strong As Aconitum or r...

"For all such time of love is lore, And like unto the Bitter-swete,[21:1] For though it think a man fyrst swete He shall well felen at laste That it is sower."

Warwickshire is more celebrated for its Oaks and Elms than for its Ash trees. Yet considering how common a tree the Ash is, and in what high estimation it was held by our ancest...

In Shakespeare's time the word "Cockle" was becoming restricted to the Corn-cockle (_Lychnis githago_), but both in his time, and certainly in that of the writers before him, it...

[202:1] The original meaning of Peascod is a bag of peas. Cod is bag as Matt. x. 10--"ne codd, ne hlaf, ne feo on heora gyrdlum--'not a bag, not a loaf, not (fee) money in their...

Any account of the "Plant-lore of Shakespeare" would be very incomplete if it did not include his "Garden-craft." There are a great many passages scattered throughout his works,...

gather flowers," which at the end of the scene we are told are violets, cowslips, and primroses, the flowers of the spring. In the fourth act Lucius gives orders to "find out th...

Balm, 27. Brambles, 629. Cedar, 856. Cherries, 1103. Ebony, 948. Lily, 228, 361, 1053. Mulberries, 1103. Myrtle, 865. Plum, 527. Primrose, 151. Rose, 3, 10, 574, 584, 935. Vine,...