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Title: Scottish gardens; being a representative selection of different types, old and new
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Maxwell, Herbert, Sir, 1845-1937 Wilson, Mary G.W., illus
Subjects: Gardens
Publisher: London : E. Arnold
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
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NE writing about daffodils should fore-swear poetic quotation, were it only incommon consideration for his readers.Nevertheless there is one practical pointconnected with this favourite flowerrendering excusable a reference to a passage in thegreatest of English poets. When Shakespeare wroteof daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and takeThe winds of March with beauty, he had in mind, not the March of our calendar, butMarch old style, which, according to Julian reckoning,was in the seventeenth century, ten days in retard ofthe Gregorian dates. Although the Scottish PrivyCouncil decreed the adoption of the new style from1600, it was not until 1751 that the British Parliamentfollowed suit, passing an Act in that year which setmatters in order by the omission of all dates betweenthe 2nd and the 14th of September, 1752. Thuswhen The Winters Tale was produced in 1611, Shake-speares month of March corresponded to the period 40
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MONREITH. MONREITH now noted by us as extending from 11th Marchto 10th April, both inclusive. This puts the poetschronology in harmony with our present experience :for the common daffodil is never at its prime tillthe beginning of April, even in early districts. Inbackward districts the full flush is not to be expectedbefore the middle of the month. It was on the 2ndApril that Miss Wilson made her study of daffodilsat Monreith, and they would have made a bravershow had she been able to wait till the followingweek. There is no plant, not even the rose, which hasundergone more frequent transformation at the handsof the hybridiser than the daffodil; but the naturalspecies were perfect before man took to playingpranks with them, and I confess to thinking the newvarieties no improvement on the old types. Thosewhich have run riot through the Monreith woods arethe common sort. Narcissus pseudo-narcissus, whichis probably a native of England, and certainlyrevels in the humid climate of Scotla

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