. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GAEDENEB. [Uay 30. thoughts,—a derivation Shakespeare admits when he makes Ojihelia say— "And there is Pansics, that's for ; Even the gi-animar here is not objectionable, for tliere is no doubt that Panseys, or Thoughts, was the name applied to the flower. Live-in-idleness is not the name it usually received, even in Gerarde's time, for Shakespeare, his contem- porary, wi'ites thus of it:— " Mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower,— Before, milk-white, now purple with love's wo
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GAEDENEB. [Uay 30. thoughts,—a derivation Shakespeare admits when he makes Ojihelia say— "And there is Pansics, that's for ; Even the gi-animar here is not objectionable, for tliere is no doubt that Panseys, or Thoughts, was the name applied to the flower. Live-in-idleness is not the name it usually received, even in Gerarde's time, for Shakespeare, his contem- porary, wi'ites thus of it:— " Mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower,— Before, milk-white, now purple with love's wound,— And maidens it Love-in-idleness. The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid, Will make a man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it ; A superstition that gives a clue to this name, popular even now in some parts of England. Gull-me-to-yuu was a name inviting a gathering, and well suited for a love gift wlien modesty forbade a bolder invitation. " No word spake she; and yet the flower She threw, was ' CuU-me-to-your-bower.' " Three-faees-in-a-hood alludes to the form of the flower, tlie under petals, over-hung by the two larger upper ones, bearing some resemblance to what the name describes. But some carried the resemblance even further, and one old herbalist writes indignantly—"This is that herb which such physicians as are licensed to blaspheme by authority, without danger of having their tongues burned through with an hot iron, called an herb of the ; Whichever name be selected for this our favourite flower, we recommend it especially to our readers. The beauty and long succession of its blooms, the endless variety of these, the fi-agi-ance of some, and the che<i,p- ness of all, recommend it strongly for more general cul- tivation, and with an assurance that it will give heart's- ease to the It is but recently admitted among Florists' i'lowers; and we think that Hogg, in lSf!3, was the fi
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