Lavender-cotton, Marjoram, Savoury and Thyme are also named as 

 among the plants used for the same purpose. Rue, with its neat bluish- 

 green foliage, is also a capital plant for the garden where this colour of 

 leafage is desired. Fennel, with its finely-divided leaves and handsome 

 yellow flower, is a good border plant, though rarely so used, and blooms 

 in the late autumn. Lavender and Rosemary are both so familiar as 

 flower-garden plants that we forget that they can also be used as neat 

 edgings, if from the time they are young plants they are kept clipped. 

 Borage has a handsome blue flower, as good as its relation the larger 

 Anchusa. Tansy, best known in gardens by the handsome Achillea 

 Eupatorium, was an old inmate of the herb garden. Sweet Cicely 

 {Myrrhis odorata) has beautiful foliage, pale green and fern-like, with a 

 good umbel of white bloom, and is a most desirable plant to group with 

 and among early blooming flowers. And we all know what a good 

 garden flower is the common Pot Marigold. 



The old farm buildings at Cleeve Prior are scarcely less beautiful than 

 the manor-house itself, and are remarkable for the timber erections, open 

 at the sides but with tiled roofs, that give sheltered access, by outside 

 stairways, to the lofts. 



Throughout England the older farmhouses and buildings are full of 

 interest, not only to architects, but to many who are in sympathy with 

 good and simple construction, and have taken the pleasant trouble to 

 learn enough about it to understand how and why the buildings were 

 reared. And in these restless days of hurry and strain and close com- 

 petition in trades, and bad, cheap work, it is good to pass a quiet hour in 

 wandering about among structures set up four or even five centuries ago 

 by these grand building monks. The present writer had just such a 

 pleasure not long ago in the South of England, where a large group of 

 monastic farm buildings stands within sound of the wash of the sea. They 

 are on sloping ground, inclosing three sides of a square ; a wall, backed 

 with trees, forming the fourth side. On the upper level is a great barn ; 

 a much greater, the tithe barn, being opposite it on the lower. Buildings 

 containing stables, cattle-sheds and piggeries connect the two. Between 

 these and the wall opposite is a spacious yard ; across the middle is a 

 raised causeway dividing the yard into two levels. 



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