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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



apart every way. All the culture which is required afterwards is, keeping the 

 soil free from weeds. Iu a few years the plants will have grown sufficiently to 

 touch each other: ami in this state they will remain from fifteen to twenty 

 years, according to the nature of the soil: they are then taken up, and the 

 ground cropped for two or three years with turnips and other field crops; 

 alter which the lavender plantation is renewed. The flowers are obliged to 

 be cither sold to a regularly licensed distiller, or 

 distilled on the premises, on account of the excise 

 laws. The oil from the plantation here is said to 

 be oi" the best quality ; doubtless from the cal- 

 careous nature of the soil." (Gard. Mag., ix. 

 p. 661.) Miss Kent, in her Flora Domestica y 

 mentions that the stalks of lavender, when 

 stripped of their flowers, form an agreeable sub- 

 stitute for pastiles, and burn very well in the 

 little vessels made for burning pastiles in. (p. 219.) 

 The poets have not quite neglected the lavender. 

 Shenstone, in his Schoolmistress, says, — 



" And lavender, whose spikes of azure bloom 



Shall be erewliile in arid bundles bound, 



To lurk amidst her labours of the loom, 

 And crown her kerchiefs clean with mickle rare perfume." 



a. A'cynos graveolcns Link, and A. rotundifoUu 

 Pers., the former a native of the Crimea, and the 

 latter of Spain, are small thyme-like shrubs, seldom exceeding 1 ft. in height* 

 which might be placed on rockwork. 



GardoqWA Hookcn Bent/i., Sivt. Brit. Fl. Gard., 2. s. t. 271., is a small 

 upright-branched shrub, with obovate pointed leaves; a native of South 

 ( Carolina, where it was discovered by Mr. 

 Alexander Gordon, a collector sent out 

 by Mr. Charhvood, and was introduced in 

 1831. It is a delicate, but showy, little 

 shrub, with brilliant scarlet flowers, and in 

 all probability is half-hardy. 



WettringiB vosmariniformis Sm., Bot. Rep., 

 t. 214., is a native of New South Wales; 

 introduced in 1791, and producing its pale 

 blue flowers from May till August. It is a 

 very eligible shrub for a conservative wall, 

 from the rosemary-like character of its ever- 

 green foliage. In the conservatory of the 

 Cambridge Botanic Garden, it is 9 ft. high 

 in a pot, and will doubtless grow much higher x^^ 3 

 when trained against a wall. 



a. Salvia officinal** L., N.Du Ham., 6. t. 25., 

 and OUT rig. 1 141 ., is a well-known suffruticose 

 plant, which, though seldom seen above 2ft. 

 in height, yet, in deep sandy soil, will grow to 

 the height of 5ft. or Oft., and produce a 

 Stem as thick as a man's leg. We have seen 

 plant- of this size in Donald's Nursery, at 

 Goldsworthg in Surrey; and we have seen 

 hedges of rage on chalky soils, between 3 ft. 

 and 1 ft. high. It is a native of the south of 1 

 in British gardens from time immemorial, and 



abounding hi racemea of flowers, if. is very ornamental. The virtues of sage 



' eleforated from time immemorial. The Latin name of the plant,Salvia, 



from '//' ere t to heal; and one of the Latin pods asks, "Why should 



a man die who baa lage in his garden ?" According to Gerard, " No man needs 



urope, and has been known 

 when grown in masses, and 



