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  Medieval Mary Garden Prints 


In undertaking the project in 1951 of spreading knowledge of the
medieval flowers symbolically named for Mary and their growing as
a prayerful religious work, we first of all looked for a name for
the project.

We had learned of the flowers from the "Garden of Our Lady" planted
in 1932 by Frances Crane Lillie at the Angelus Tower given by her
to St. Joseph's Church in Woods Hole, in the leaflet for which,
"Our Lady in Her Garden", she referred to the flowers listed as
"Her Flowers".

In the course of our research we came across the book, "Medieval
Gardens" by Frank Crisp (London, 1924; now reprinted, New York,
1966), containing 100 or so medieval garden prints, two of which
were titled "Mary Garden"

With this authentication of the medieval name, "Mary Garden", we
elected to call our project "Mary's Gardens", and referred to the
flowers named for Mary in medieval times as the "Flowers of Our
Lady".

The following are the two medieval prints from Crisp named "Mary
Garden", and also a medieval print of "Mary with symbols of Garden
and other Attributes" (later regarded as "Immaculate Conception
symbols").