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that we know as salvia ; next came rue and rosemary, 

 Ophelia's flower of remembrance, with stiff leaves. 

 Little known or grown, or rather capricious and ten- 

 der here, I take it, for I find plants of it offered for 

 sale in only one catalogue. Marigolds were here also, 

 why I do not know, as I should think they belonged 

 with the more showy flowers; then inconspicuous 

 pennyroyal and several kinds of mints spearmint, 

 peppermint, and some great plants of velvet-leaved 

 catnip. 



Borage I saw for the first time, also coriander 

 of the aromatic seeds, and a companion of dill of vine- 

 gar fame; and strangely enough, in rotation of Bible 

 quotation, cumin and rue came next. 



Caraway and a feathery mass of fennel took me 

 back to grandmother's Virginia garden; balm and 

 arnica, especially when I bruised a leaf of the latter 

 between my fingers, recalled the bottle from which I 

 soothe the Infant's childish bumps, the odour of it 

 being also strongly reminiscent of my own childhood. 



Angelica spoke of the sweet candied stalks, but when 

 we reached a spot of basil, Martin Cortright's tongue 

 was loosed and he began to recite from Keats ; and all 

 at once I seemed to see Isabella sitting among the 

 shadows holding between her knees the flower-pot from 



