As for mangolds, poppies, hollyhocks and val- 

 orous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden 

 without them, both for thine own sake and for the 

 sake of old-fashioned folk, who used to love them. 



Henry Ward Beecher. 



Ah, Sunflower, weary of time 

 Who countest the steps of the sun ; 

 Seeking after that sweet golden clime, 

 Where the traveller's journey is done; 



Where the youth pined away with desire, 

 And the pale virgin shrouded in snow, 

 Arise from their graves, and aspire 

 Where my Sunflower wishes to go. 



William Blake. 



* * * The great upstanding hollyhocks, 

 Those heavenward ladders by which in a row 

 Roses footing for angels go, 

 The larger, the farther down they grow. 



Laurence Housman. 



In all times the English have been fond of 

 gardens. Bacon thought it not beneath his dignity 

 to order the arrangement of a garden. Long before 

 Bacon, a writer of the twelfth century describes a 

 garden as it should be: "It should be adorned on 

 this side with roses, lilies and the marigold; on that 

 side with parsley, cost, fennel, southernwood, cori- 

 ander, sage, savory, hyssop, mint, vine, deltany, 

 pellitory, lettuce, cresses, and the peony! Let there 

 be beds enriched with onions, leek, garlic, melons, 

 scallions. The garden is also enriched by the 

 cucumber, the soporiferous poppy, and the daffodil, 



