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cottage to the very eaves, for with a little training, 

 it will reach a height of fifteen feet or more. 



How the bees revel in the grey-blue flowers on 

 a bright morning in early spring ! For that reason 

 alone, beekeepers do well to grow plenty of it, as 

 well as lavender, for the excellent flavour it will give 

 to their honey. A hedge in the open will flower a 

 little later than the sheltered plants nailed against 

 a wall, which is all the better for the bees, but it 

 is doubtful whether the statement that rosemary 

 flowers twice in the year, which is often made, has 

 any foundation in fact. 



" Put in rosemary cuttings on Good Friday and 

 they are bound to grow," is an old-fashioned 

 country adage ; and so they certainly will, but 

 better plants can be raised from seed. It is a 

 shrub which seeds freely, and if a grain c^n be 

 coaxed to take root in the crevice of a ruined wall, 

 it will wax strong and hardy, and no prettier way 

 o^ growing it can be found than to let it shape 

 itself as it will. It likes the lime of the crumbling 

 mortar, and is far more aromatic in such scant 

 harbourage as it can find for itself, than when given 

 the luxury of richer soil — only it asks for sunshine. 



We may see in some country gardens a simple 

 archway made of rough oak boughs clothed with 



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