Beautiful Flowering Shrubs 



And so " Rosemary that's for remembrance/' as sad 

 Ophelia said, and hence, too, the Rosemary is above 

 all others the shrub of sentiment. Obviously it cannot 

 rank among the shrubs of special beauty, though the 

 low tones of its grey-green foliage and dull purple 

 flowers have a quaint attractiveness, but even in these 

 prosaic days a place will be found for it in many a 

 garden when gayer shrubs are crowded out. 



" I plant Rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant 

 is it to know that every few steps one may draw the 

 kindly branchlets through one's hand and have the 

 enjoyment of their incomparable incense, and I grow it 

 against walls so that the sun may draw at its in- 

 exhaustible sweetness to greet me as I pass/' * 



In olden days, when sentiment seemed more to the 

 fore, the " Gloriouse Rosemaryne," was universally 

 grown. " Being in every woman's garden/' says 

 Parkinson about the middle of the seventeenth 

 century, in his "Earthly Paradise," "it were sufficient 

 but to name it as an ornament among other sweet 

 herbs and flowers in our gardens " ; while Shenstone 



"trim Rosernarine that whilom crowned 

 The daintiest garden of the proudest peer." 



In earlier days still Sir Thomas More wrote, " As 

 for Rosernarine I lett it run all over my garden wall, not 

 onlie because my bees love it, but because 'tis the herb 



* "Home and Garden." By G. Jekyll. 

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