. 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. sha:\irock SHOEBLACK PLANT 16G3 SHAMKOCK. Half the wurkl is sure tliat Shainmek is Xhv sui-re!. Aa^tosc/I'i. The uther li;ilf is tMiuulty oertiiin iluit the true JShamvck is white clover, Trifolitdii r,/i,iis. In the time ut' J^ipeiiscr's Fairy Queen, Shamrock was said to be y,-oud to eat, This a
. 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. sha:\irock SHOEBLACK PLANT 16G3 SHAMKOCK. Half the wurkl is sure tliat Shainmek is Xhv sui-re!. Aa^tosc/I'i. The uther li;ilf is tMiuulty oertiiin iluit the true JShamvck is white clover, Trifolitdii r,/i,iis. In the time ut' J^ipeiiscr's Fairy Queen, Shamrock was said to be y,-oud to eat, This applies to the former pU\nt, hut not to the latter. Moreover, accord in ^t:^ to Sowerhy, the "\V(_>(_Mhsorrel is in perfection on Saint Patrick's Day, while white clover is not. The ^YOod-sorrel is sent in ;;reat quantities from Ireland to London f()r Saint Patrick's day. On the other hand, it is said tliat idover is the plant most com- monly used in Ireland. Halt a dozen other plants have their followers, and these are all plants with three leaf- lets. Ne\'ertheless there are those who deny that Saint Patrick used the Shamrock as a symbol of the trinity. These declare that the water cress is rln- true Sham- rock. The question will always remain an open one. See Dyer's "Folk-Lore of ; "\y_ y[ SHAMROCK, INDIAN. ,sh books for the Tri/ltiii. SHAMROCK PEA. Put 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 constituting an By special act of the (ieneral Assembly of the state of Missouri, approved in I\Iareh, 18-39. ]Mr. Shaw was empowered to provide for the conveyance ut his property, either during his life or after bis demise, to trnstees, fur the perpetual maintenance of his garden as a scientific establishment. In he endoweil a department in Washirigton University, known as t he Henry Shaw Scho<.)I of Botam&
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