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I allude to might be worthily furnished with the various 
aromatic plants (nearly all hardy) which one meets with on 
the wild hill-sides of Southern France, and which include 
Thyme, Balm, Mint, Rosemary, Lavender, and various other 
old garden favourites. 
True taste in the garden is unhappily much rarer than 
many people suppose. No amount of expense, rich collec- 
tions, good cultivation, large gardens, and plenty of glass, will 
suffice ; all these and much more it is not difficult to see, but 
a few acres of garden showing a real love of the beautiful in 
Nature, as it can be illustrated in gardens, is rare, and when it 
is seen it is often rather the result of accident than design. 
This is partly owing to the fact that the kind of knowledge 
one wants in order to form a really beautiful garden is very 
uncommon. No man can do so with few materials. It is 
necessary to have some knowledge of the enormous wealth 
of beauty which the world contains for the adornment of 
gardens ; and yet this knowledge must not have a leaning, or 
but very partially, towards the Dryasdust character. The 
disposition to “dry” and name everything, to concern oneself 
entirely with nomenclature and classification, is not in ac- 
cordance with a true gardening spirit—it is the life we want. 
The garden of the late Mr. Hewittson, at Weybridge, con- 
tained some of the most delightful bits of garden scenery 
which I have ever seen. Below the house, on the slope over 
the water of Oatlands Park, and below the usual lawn beds, 
trees, etc., there is a piece of heathy ground which, when we 
saw it, was charming beyond any power of the pencil to show. 
The ground was partially clad with common Heaths with 
little irregular green paths through them, and abundantly 
