214 THE BAMBOO GARDEN CHAP. VIII 
only plants which help us to give, in certain appropriate 
places, some faint idea of the mysterious vegetation of warm 
climates. Outlanders it must be confessed that they are, with 
the impress of their foreign origin stamped on every feature, 
differing in that from many an impostor, too often undetected, 
that raises its bragging head with as much effrontery as if it 
could trace an English pedigree back beyond the Crusades. 
The impostor is admitted without a word, but give a place to 
the more honest and charming outlander, and you are a Goth, 
a destroyer of the English landscape when, turning an alley, 
you bring the purist to some secluded spot framing a picture 
which he cannot understand, and in his superiority will not 
admire, but which to you brings back something like a subtle — 
fragrance of the dim far-away. 
