I have said that my subject naturally divides itself into two parts, first, The Plants and Flowers named by Shakespeare; second, His Knowledge of Gardens and Gardening. The first part is now concluded, and I go to the second part, which will be very much shorter, and which may be entitled "The Garden-craft of Shakespeare."
FOOTNOTES:
[327:1] The reading of the folio is "young tree," for "Yew tree."
"An Eu tre (Ewetre); taxus, taximus."—Catholicon Anglicum.
"The eugh obedient to the bender's will."—Spenser, F. Q., i. 9.
"So far as eughen bow a shaft may send."—F. Q., ii. 11-19.
[328:3] There are, however, well-recorded instances of death from Yew berries. The poisonous quality, such as it is, resides in the hard seed, and not in the red mucilaginous skin, which is the part eaten by children. (See [Hebenon].)