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OLD WEST SURREY 



China Asters are great favourites — ' Chaney Oysters ' the 

 old people used to call them — and Dahlias, especially the tight, 

 formal show kinds, are much prized and grandly grown. 



Sweet-smelling bushes and herbs, such as rosemary, 

 lavender, southernwood, mint sage, and balm, or at least 

 some of them, were to be found in the older cottagers' 



Roses and Canterbury Bells 



garden plots. Perhaps southernwood was the greatest favour- 

 ite of all. An old man said that when he was young 

 he used to put bergamot (Monarda) into his hair-grease— 

 ' Just did please the girls,' he said. 



Here and there is a clipped yew over a cottage 

 entrance ; but this kind of work is not so frequent as in 

 other parts of the country. 



