Shakespeare's Wild Flowers: Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore |
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1 No botanist would describe lady - smocks ( Cardamine pratensis ) as “ silver - white ” for , strictly speaking ... the meadows seem agleam with them and in the spring sunlight they look as Shakespeare describes them — silvery white .
1 No botanist would describe lady - smocks ( Cardamine pratensis ) as “ silver - white ” for , strictly speaking ... the meadows seem agleam with them and in the spring sunlight they look as Shakespeare describes them — silvery white .
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elms : » Gerard in his Herball ( 1597 ) describes this method of growing vines— “ The vine is held up with poles and frames of wood and by that means is spreadeth all about and climbeth aloft ; it joyneth itselfe unto trees ...
elms : » Gerard in his Herball ( 1597 ) describes this method of growing vines— “ The vine is held up with poles and frames of wood and by that means is spreadeth all about and climbeth aloft ; it joyneth itselfe unto trees ...
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1 Perdita's “ hot lavender ” 2 the herb Spenser describes still grey ” has always been valued for its fragrance and it is therefore the more noteworthy that Bacon does not list it amongst his sweet - smelling plants .
1 Perdita's “ hot lavender ” 2 the herb Spenser describes still grey ” has always been valued for its fragrance and it is therefore the more noteworthy that Bacon does not list it amongst his sweet - smelling plants .
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| Title | Shakespeare's Wild Flowers: Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore |
| Author | Eleanour Sinclair Rohde |
| Publisher | Medici society, Limited, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 235 pages |
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