io8 THE GLORY OF THE GARDEN 



And then for those who do not behave in a peace- 

 able and law-abiding fashion, the punishment will 

 not be imprisonment in a brick-walled gaol, but 

 the offender will find himself firmly rooted to the 

 ground, there to serve out his time as some tree 

 or prickly shrub. 



Ben Jonson, in the " Masque of Queens," speaks 

 of the gum, or turpentine of the larch, as being 

 used in witchcraft. A witch answers her com- 

 panions thus: 



" Yes, I have brought (to help your vows) 

 Horned Poppy, Cypress-boughs, 

 The Fig-tree wild, that grows on tombs, 

 And juice that from the Larch-tree comes, 

 The basilisk's blood and the viper's skin; 

 And now our orgies let's begin." 



