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apart every way. All the culture which is required afterwards is, keeping the 
soil free from weeds. In a few years the plants will have grown sufficiently to 
touch each other ; and in this state they will remain from fifteen to twenty 
years, according to the nature of the soil: they are then taken up, and the 
ground cropped for two or three years with turnips and other field crops; 
after which the lavender plantation is renewed. The flowers are obliged to 
be either sold to a regularly licensed distiller, or Y 
distilled on the premises, on account of the excise 3 
laws. The oil from the plantation here is said to 
be of the best quality; doubtless from the cal- 
careous nature of the soil.” (Gard. Mag., ix. 
p- 661.) Miss Kent, in her Flora Domestica, 
mentions that the stalks of lavender, when 
stripped of their flowers, form an agreeable sub- 
stitute for pastiles, and burn very well in the 
little vessels made for burning pastiles in. (p. 219.) 
The poets have not quite neglected the lavender. 
Shenstone, in his Schoolmistress, says, — 
** And lavender, whose spikes of azure bloom 
Shall be erewhile in arid bundles bound, 
To lurk amidst her labours of the loom, 
And crown her kerchiefs clean with mickle rare perfume.” 
w A’cynos gravéolens Link, and A. rotundifoliu 
Pers., the former a native of the Crimea, and the 
latter of Spain, are small thyme-like shrubs, seldom exceedin 
which might be placed on rockwork. 
Gardoquia Hodkeri Benth., Swt. Brit. Fl. Gard., 2. s. t.271., is a small 
upright-branched shrub, with obovate pointed leaves; a native of South 
Carolina, where it was discovered by Mr. _® 
Alexander Gordon, a collector sent out LY, 
by Mr. Charlwood, and was introduced in oa tos 
1831. It is a delicate, but showy, little 
shrub, with brilliant scarlet flowers, and in 
all probability is half-hardy. 
Westringia rosmariniformis Sm., Bot. Rep., 
t. 214., is a native of New South Wales; 
introduced in 1791, and producing its pale 
blue flowers from May till August. It is a 
very eligible shrub for a conservative wall, 
from the rosemary-like character of its ever- 
green foliage. In the conservatory of the 
Cambridge Botanic Garden, it is 9 ft. high 
in a pot, and will doubtless grow much higher 
when trained against a wall. “s 
w Salvia officinalis L., N. Du Ham., 6. t. 25., 
and our fig.1141., is a well-known suffruticose 
plant, which, though seldom seen above 2 ft. 
in height, yet, in deep sandy soil, will grow to 
the height of 5ft. or 6ft., and produce a 
stem as thick as a man’s leg. We have seen 
plants of this size in Donald’s Nursery, at 
Goldsworth, in Surrey; and we have seen 
hedges of sage on chalky soils, between 3 ft. 
and 4 ft. high. It is a native of the south of Europe, and has been known 
in British gardens from time immemorial, and when grown in masses, and 
abounding in racemes of flowers, it is very ornamental. The virtues of sage 
have been celebrated from time immemorial. The Latin name of the plant, Salvia, 
is derived from salvere, to heal; and one of the Latin poets asks, “ Why should 
a man die who has sage in his garden ?” According to Gerard, “ No man needs 
