. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. SHAMROCK SHOEBLACK PLANT 1663 SHAMROCK. Half the world is sure that Shamrock is the wood sorrel, Oxalls Acetosella. The other half is equally certain that the true Shamrock is white clover, TrifoUu»i repens. In the time of Spenser's Fairy Queen, Shamrock was said to be good to eat. This applies to the former pl
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. SHAMROCK SHOEBLACK PLANT 1663 SHAMROCK. Half the world is sure that Shamrock is the wood sorrel, Oxalls Acetosella. The other half is equally certain that the true Shamrock is white clover, TrifoUu»i repens. In the time of Spenser's Fairy Queen, Shamrock was said to be good to eat. This applies to the former plant, but not to the latter. Moreover, according to Sowerby, the wood-sorrel is in perfection on Saint Patrick's Day, while white clover is not. The wood-sorrel is sent in great quantities from Ireland to London for Saint Patrick's day. On the other hand, it is said that clover is the plant most com- monly used in Ireland. Half a dozen other plants have their followers, and these are all plants with three leaf- lets. Nevertheless there are those who deny that Saint Patrick used the Shamrock as a symbol of the trinity. These declare that the water cress is the true Sham- rock. The question will always remain an open one. See Dyer's "Folk-Lore of ; s^ jvi. SHAMROCK, INDIAN. A name found in some Eng- lish books for the Trillium. SHAMROCK PEA. Parochehis communis. SHAW, HENRY, founder of the Missouri Botanical Garden, popularly known as "Shaw's Gardens," was born at Sheffield, England, July 24, ISOO, and died at St. Louis, Mo., August 25, 1889. He came to the United States in 1819 and engaged in the hardware business until 1840 in St. Louis, where he continued to reside until his death. After retirement from active business he traveled for a number of years, and in 1849 laid out a modest garden about his country house in the suburbs of St. Louis, which, nine years later, he extended so as to include some forty-five acres, about half of this area constitut
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