200 A BOOK ABOUT THE GARDEN. 



between me and tbee, when we are absent one from 

 anotber." 



On your left is a collection, also very dear to us, of 

 plants, ferns, and flowers, brought from distant places 

 (Scotland, Ireland, Wales), and from many a pleasant 

 home memorials of our happy wanderings amid the 

 fairest scenes of eartb, and reminding us also that 

 the brightest day of every pilgrimage was that 

 which brought us back to our garden. 



The last small plat to which I invite you is our 

 garden of Palestine, wherein we have collected many 

 of the trees and shrubs and flowers which are men- 

 tioned in the Holy Scriptures, aware, of course, that 

 in several instances as, for example, the apple and 

 the juniper trees, the hyssop, the lily, and the rose 

 our specimens are identical only in name. For this 

 reason we have included both trees and flowers, such 

 as the apricot and the anemone, which, although not 

 mentioned in the Bible, are found in abundance upon 

 the sacred soil, and were probably referred to and 

 intended by words imperfectly translated in our 

 tongue. Here, then, are the trees, the grasses, herbs, 

 fruits, and flowers., consecrated to our ears by Prophet 

 and Psalmist, and by our Lord Himself the cedar 

 and the cypress, the oak and the elm, the fir-tree, the 

 pine-tree, and the box-tree together, from which, at 

 Christmas, and Easter, and other holy seasons, we 

 " beautify the place of the sanctuary ; " there, upon 

 the southward wall, grow the vine, the fig-tree, and 

 the gourd, and, close by, the myrtle and the green 

 bay-tree; and there, where our village brook forms 

 the boundary of my garden, is the tree planted by the 



