[Publib] Botanical Stuff

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This year's harvest includes some seeds from Eryngium maritimum, the  Sea 
Holly.  I got the original seeds from our local arboretum's Shakespeare  
garden, one of those plantings organized so as to include species mentioned in  
the Bard's writing.  [more on this later]
 
Falstaff proclaims, 
 
"Let the sky rain potatoes;
let it thunder to the tune of  Green-sleeves,
hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes,
let there come a  tempest of provocation . . ."
 
The eringoes are the Sea Hollies, supposed then to possess  aphrodisiac 
qualities.  As were the potatoes.  Imagine your true love  being pelted in the 
coconut by a bushel of same while the two of you gazed at  the moon for 
inspiration.  And I tell you, a Sea Holly is quite close to a  nettle in its 
tactile appeal.  You have to harvest the seeds with a gloved  hand.
 
These are perennials, which means you will see a plant first year and a  
bloom the next.  Now go look this plant up somewhere, do.  And I have  the 
seeds, remember.  
 
M. McGrorty
 
 
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