COTTAGE GARDENS 167 



in the summer time send forth many short stalks 

 of pleasant flowers, to decke up an house among 

 other sweete herbes." 



Bordering the little path up to the porch 

 (covered with Hops) are standard Rose bushes, 

 rising from beds of "pretty Fancy," or Heartsease, 

 the flower so beloved that it has been named 

 again and again. Many of these names are 

 curious, such as " Pink of my John," " Love in 

 Idleness," "Three faces under one hood," "Herb 

 Trinity," " Cuddle me to you," " Paunce or 

 Pensee," and " Flame Flower." 



The great desire in a Cottage Garden always 

 seems to be to cover the earth with some kind of 

 living thing. Among the little groups of Rasp- 

 berry canes the ground was closely planted with 

 vegetables, among which some enormous Primroses 

 had seeded themselves. They were pointed out 

 with pride, and strangely enough alluded to in the 

 expressive language of Mr. Pepys as "mighty 

 pretty." 



This tiny Garden looks for all the world as if 

 here many of the "Good Pointes in Husbandrie," 

 by Tusser that man of sense and humour had 

 been carried out. As he sings : 



" In March and April from morning till night, 

 In sowing and setting, good housewife's delight, 

 To have in a Garden or other like plot 

 To turn up their house, and furnish their pot." 



