40 GARDENS OF ENGLAND 



Perennials form a numerous family. Those 

 from the South want warmer quarters than the 

 rest, but most of them are hardy. Tansy grows 

 anywhere; homely as it is one loves its tight 

 little golden flowers. Horehound and rue like a 

 shady border and a dry and chalky soil. Now and 

 again it is a good plan to cut the rue down and let 

 it grow into a well-shaped bush again. Ah ! the 

 smell of rue ; it is the quaintest smell in aU the 

 world ; not at all nice, but so clean, so purifying. 

 No wonder it was used to keep off fevers and even 

 worse things. Rosemary, sage, and hyssop like 

 a light and sandy soil. Mint, peppermint, and 

 pennyroyal delight in moisture. Look at the wild 

 peppermint in sedgy places. 



Elecampane likes shade and a fairly damp place, 

 where it grows sometimes as much as six feet high, 

 throwing up spikes of pretty yellow flowers ; it is 

 propagated by off-sets. Saffron prefers sand and 

 sun and to be grown from seed. Basil it is safer to 

 raise from seed in a hotbed, and plant out in a 

 warm border about May-time. Coriander may be 

 sown in March, during dry weather, and the seeds 

 put in half an inch deep. 



Sorrel we increase by dividing the roots. There 

 are two kinds, the French sorrel and the English 



