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The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare

Note 32:1 — BAY TREES.

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"The Anglo-Saxon Beay was not a ring only, or an armlet: it was also a coronet or diadem. . . . The Bays, then, of our Poets and the Bay tree were in reality the Coronet and the Coronet tree."—Cockayne, Spoon and Sparrow, p. 21.

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