The Plant Lore Garden Craft of Shakespeare
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We often hear and read accounts of modem gardening in which it is coolly assumed, and almost" taken for granted, that the science of horticulture, and almost the love of flowers, is a product of the nineteenth century. But the love of flowers is no new taste in £i\glish- Digitized by Google 340 Garderircraft of Shakespeare, men, and the science of horticulture is in no way a modem science. We have made large progress in botanical science during the present century, and our easy communications w...ith the whole habitable globe have brought to us thousands of new and beautiful plants in endless varieties ; and we have many helps in gaMening that were quite unknown to our forefathers. Yet there were brave old ^deners in our forefathers' times, and a very little acquaintance with the literature of the sixteenth century will show that in Shake- speare's time there was a most healthy and manly love of flowers for their own sake, and great industry and much practical skill in gardening. We might, indeed, go much further back than the fifteenth century,, and still find the same love and the same skill We have long lists of plants grown in times before the Conquest, with treatises on gar- dening, in which there is much that is absurd, but which show a practical experience in the art, and which show also that the gardens of those days were by no means ill-furnished either with fruit or flowers.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
We often hear and read accounts of modem gardening in which it is coolly assumed, and almost" taken for granted, that the science of horticulture, and almost the love of flowers, is a product of the nineteenth century. But the love of flowers is no new taste in £i\glish- Digitized by Google 340 Garderircraft of Shakespeare, men, and the science of horticulture is in no way a modem science. We have made large progress in botanical science during the present century, and our easy communications w...ith the whole habitable globe have brought to us thousands of new and beautiful plants in endless varieties ; and we have many helps in gaMening that were quite unknown to our forefathers. Yet there were brave old ^deners in our forefathers' times, and a very little acquaintance with the literature of the sixteenth century will show that in Shake- speare's time there was a most healthy and manly love of flowers for their own sake, and great industry and much practical skill in gardening. We might, indeed, go much further back than the fifteenth century,, and still find the same love and the same skill We have long lists of plants grown in times before the Conquest, with treatises on gar- dening, in which there is much that is absurd, but which show a practical experience in the art, and which show also that the gardens of those days were by no means ill-furnished either with fruit or flowers.
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