LAVENDER AND ROSEMARY 21 



the faded silks and satins of some long-forgotten 

 ancestress. 



The very name of lavender carries with it a 

 sense of wholesomeness, and the pure fragrance of 

 Nature, and we cannot but rejoice that the good 

 gardening and good taste which, in cultural matters, 

 were never more to the forefront than now, have 

 bidden us to restore it once more to its rightful 

 place in our gardens. 



There are so many ways in which lavender can 

 be used : sometimes as a low hedge to divide the 

 well-filled ranks of the kitchen garden from the 

 flowers planted on each side of a central pathway ; 

 sometimes grouped in the herbaceous border to 

 give the needful touch of silver-grey which serves 

 to heighten the colours of bright -hued flowers ; 

 or it may be planted with excellent effect to lean 

 over the top of a retaining wall. It will even bear 

 clipping hke box to make a formal edging, if it 

 should be desirable, in a garden design of purple 

 and grey. A lavender walk is, perhaps, the most 

 delightful of all in June, when the soft spikes are 

 beginning to push up from every branchlet, and 

 the light passing of a hand over the bushes stirs 

 the faint scent of the young growth in August, 

 when the first early flowers are breaking into blue, 



