so of course I googled around and offer you now this:
from A Nation's Heritage, by H.D.Rawnsley
Allen&Unwin 1920
We went into the garden at the back of the
house, with fine view of the Castle mound tower-
ing above it, of which no stone remains to tell
us of its ancient Norman splendour, and gained
a peep at the gable end of Tom Poole's house,
from which, in Coleridge's time, ran a pathway
so often traversed by the friends. Away hi the
direction of the Castle mound we noted a cluster
of limes, which may have been that " lime tree
bower," which once gave shelter to the unwilling
prisoner, the poet, and which he immortalized on
the day when, through some injury to his foot, he
was unable to accompany Wordsworth and
Dorothy, Tom Poole and Charles Lamb in their
stroll on to the Quantock heights.
http://archive.org/stream/nationsheritage00rawniala/nationsheritage00rawniala_djvu.txt
On 31/12/2013, at 4:25 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> I'll do my best.
> I assure you I am in GB, just writing about a eucalyptus, thanks to the
> wonders of email.
> There's a eucalyptus in Coleridge's garden at Nether Stowey and some years
> ago the then custodian of the cottage wld encourage the belief that it was
> the lime tree as in "this lime tree bower my prison"
> Passed the time
>
> L
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