42 THE FRIENDSHIP OF NATURE 



rosemary and lavender flowers and 

 leaves take one part. Place in a jar 

 with layer for layer of salt, and cover 

 until the salt has drawn the juice (three 

 days will do), then add some fresh rose 

 leaves every day, and stir and mix them 

 well. When you have filled the jar 

 with well-steeped leaves, add amber- 

 gris, gum benzoin, allspice and cassia 

 buds, a grain or two of musk, and four 

 vanilla beans broken in bits. Of oil 

 of jasmine, violet, and rose, add each 

 an ounce to a full gallon jar." 



A walk bordered with box led to the 

 garden gate, half choked by woodbine, 

 and once there, beauty and rude nature 

 overran New England thrift. Johnny- 

 jumpers peered between the stones; 

 snowballs and weigela shrubs almost 

 hid a fallen apple tree where indigo 

 birds built their nests. Lupins and 

 Londonpride, nasturtiums, touch-me- 

 nots, grew side by side with fennel, 



