160 MENTHA. 



Now certainly there were such gardens with us, — a very large flower- 

 garden at Coldingham previously to 1259 ; one in Bondington near 

 Berwick in 1307 ; and another at Bemerside. And Chalmers, who 

 never speaks without authority, adds that, at this period, every house 

 in the towns and villages appears with a garden for raising culinary 

 herbs. Caledonia, ii. p. 310. David the First, — the founder and 

 restorer of almost all our old religious buildings, — improved the 

 gardens belonging to them. Fordun informs us that he paid particular 

 attention to gardens and orchards, " that he might engage his people 

 by his example to the same pursuits ;" and the historian likewise 

 represents him " as employing some part of his time, even in the last 

 year of his life, either in planting herbs or grafting shoots." Rid- 

 path's Bord. Hist. p. 86*. 



423. Mentha sylvestris. Rare. B. In the neighbourhood 

 of Blanerne, abundant. Dr. R. Dunlop. 



424. M. viRiDis. ^pear fHint. B. Side of the Whiteadder 

 above Gainslaw ford, in two or three large patches ; and between 

 AUanton and Whitehall. Below Foulden Newtown, in the deep 

 ravine by the side of the little burn, growing amongst Epilobium 

 hirsutum, in a situation very unlikely to have been planted, G. Hen- 

 derson. Sides of the Eye considerably below Blackburn mill, J. 

 Hardy. On Leader water. Dr. F. Douglas. " Near Dryburgh and 

 Melrose," Professor Balfour. R. On Bowmont water above Yetholm. 

 Aug., Sept. — Southernwood and Spearmint are the favourites in the 

 posy which our herds and hinds, and their wives, carry with them to 

 the church on a Sunday. 



25. M. piperita. ^cpptr^ifHint. B. By the streamlet below Lara- 

 berton Shiels ; and on the side of Ale water about a mile above the 

 paper-mill. On the Whiteadder below Allanton. " Near the sea- 

 coast, at the mouth of the bum that runs down from Cockburnspath 

 by Linhead. It was very thriving, but I have no doubt of its garden 

 origin," J. Hardy. " In the wood, near the road-side, west of 

 Houndwood Inn, nearly opposite the foot-path bridge which crosses 

 the Eye to Horseley. This seems to be quite a wild station," G. Hen- 

 derson. In a ditch on Belchester estate. Miss A. Hunter. — D. In 

 a ditch near the blacksmith's shop at Haggerston, with Slum angus- 

 tifolium, Veronica beccabunga, &c. 



425. M. HiRsuTA. WiiUi'Mint : ?^or£if*|Kint.— Watery places, 

 very common. Autumn. 



426. M. CRisPA, Lin.— Trans. Berw. Nat. Club, i. 30. Eng, Bot. 



tory of monkish botany is much needed ; nor do I see how the disputes 

 about certain indigenous and naturalized plants are to be solved satisfac- 

 torily without such a history. 



* In " Rokesburghe Castle," a metrical romance of the 12th centurj', 

 by Miss M. H. Ballantyne, and printed for private circulation, David's love 

 of flowers is prettily introduced, and made available to the development 

 of the plot. 



