CHAPTER VII 



Blackberry Poole's " English Parnassus " The stone- 

 bramble Dewberries Hop Tremendous vigour of 

 growth Hedge-reared asparagus Royal command to 

 abstain from using hops in brewing beer The two 

 bryonies A " Lynyment to beautifie the Chynne " 

 The " Toilet of Flora" The fragrant honeysuckle Ivy 

 Destructiveness to ancient buildings Evening prim- 

 rose Parkinson's " Garden of Pleasant Flowers " 

 Thorn-apple The henbane Lupton's " Thousand 

 Notable Things " A salve to render one elf-proof and 

 goblin-free Green hellebore The purple and yellow- 

 flowered monk's-hoods Necessity of caution in deal- 

 ing with poisonous plants. 



FEW plants make a more attractive background 

 to one's wild garden than the common 

 bramble, or blackberry. A small plant, barely a 

 yard in length, that we put in three years ago, now 

 covers over sixty feet of wall and trellis, or about 

 three hundred square feet. The blackberry throws 

 out long, arching suckers, and these presently touch 

 the ground and root afresh, 1 so that from this 



1 Against dysentery take a bramble of which both ends are 

 in the earth ; take the newer root, delve it up, cut up nine 



