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Title: The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare

Author: Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

Release Date: March 25, 2009 [EBook #28407]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Notes: Some typographical and punctuation errors have been
corrected. A complete list follows the text. Variations in spelling and
hyphenation have been left as in the original. Words in Greek in the
original are transliterated and placed between +plus signs+. Words
italicized in the original are surrounded by _underscores_. Words in
bold in the original are surrounded by =equal signs=. Characters
superscripted in the original are inclosed in {} brackets.

There are diacritic accents in the original. In this text, they are
represented as follows:

[=a] = "a" with a macron
[=e] = "e" with a macron
[=i] = "i" with a macron
[=o] = "o" with a macron
[=u] = "u" with a macron
[=w] = "w" with a macron

_THE PLANT-LORE AND GARDEN-CRAFT OF SHAKESPEARE._

PRESS NOTICES OF FIRST EDITION.

"It would be hard to name a better commonplace book for summer
lawns. . . . The lover of poetry, the lover of gardening, and the lover
of quaint, out-of-the-way knowledge will each find something to please
him. . . . It is a delightful example of gardening literature."--_Pall
Mall Gazette._

"Mr. Ellacombe, with a double enthusiasm for Shakespeare and for his
garden, has produced a very readable and graceful volume on the
Plant-Lore of Shakespeare."--_Saturday Review._

"Mr. Ellacombe brings to his task an enthusiastic love of horticulture,
wedded to no inconsiderable practical and theoretical knowledge of it; a
mind cultivated by considerable acquaintance with the Greek and Latin
classics, and trained for this special subject by a course o