26 GARDENS OF ENGLAND 



rosemary, which is one very charmiiig way of using 

 it ; but it is quite as appropriate against a grand 

 terrace balustrade as among the homely herbs of 

 the kitchen garden, or trained over a £irmhouse 

 porch. 



In some way or other, be our garden what it 

 may, we must find room for rosemary, and it should 

 be planted, not in some neglected out-of-the-way 

 comer, but where it can be seen and approved. 

 So, too, there should be plenty of it if possible, for 

 we surely fail to catch some undertone of that 

 mysterious rhythm of life which vibrates through 

 the common air we breathe if we cannot, now and 

 then, throw a rosemary branch into the fire upon 

 the hearth, and let its familiar sweetness awaken 

 tender memories of the days that are gone. 



Lavender and rosem^uy — ^two good old friends 

 — not to be cast on one side for newer comers. 

 Treat them weU, yet without grudge of shears in 

 due season, and then, come summer, come winter, 

 green of rosemary and grey of lavender will breathe 

 out new lessons of stainless fragrance and steadfast 

 faith, to stir within us nobler thoughts than we 

 sometimes harbour of the loyalty which wearies 

 never, though Time steps on. 



