MISTRESS Mary, quite contrary, 

   How does your garden grow? 

With cockle-shells and silver bells, 

   And muscles all a row. 

Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 32. No. CXXVI

MARY, Mary, quite contrary,

   How does your garden grow?

With silver bells and cockle-shells,

   And pretty maids all of a row.

Old Nurse's Book: Of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties. Ed. and Illus. by Charles H. Bennett. London, England: Griffith and Farran, 1857. [Facsimile edition reproduced from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. Toronto Public Library by Holp Shuppan, Publishers, Tokyo 1981.] p. 24.

Mistress Mary, 

   Quite contrary,

How does your garden grow?

   With cockle shells 

   And silver bells, 

And marigolds all in a row.

Baring-Gould, Sabine. A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes. Illus. by Members of the Birmingham Art School under the direction of A. J. Gaskin. London, England: Methuen, 1895, p. 86 No. LXXIII

MISTRESS MARY, quite contrary, 

   How does your garden grow? 

With cockle-shells and silver bells, 

   And pretty maids all a row.

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p. 50.

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,

   How does your garden grow?

With silver bells and cockle shells,

   And pretty maids all in a row.

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, p. 301. No. 342

Mistress Mary, 

Quite contrary,

How does your

Garden grow?

With Silver Bells, 

And Cockle Shells, 

And so my garden grows. 

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 31. No. 9