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infinitely varying combinations, give sensuous joys which 
even the most jaded can but appreciate. For there is 
probably no pleasure so democratic as that which is 
yielded by the fragrance of flowers and leaves. The 
colour and form of plants require a little attention for 
their appreciation, but their odour overwhelms our senses 
whether we attend or no. The variety of perfumes 
yielded by plants is almost as great as their forms, for 
blossom of Apple and of Jonquil, leaf of Strawberry, 
Currant, and Sweet Gale gives each an esthetic pleasure 
peculiar to itself."—From A Garden by the Sea, in <‘ The 
Book of Old-Fashioned Flowers,” p. 17. 
O._p Rustic Customs 
Old men have told me of the days when women placed 
sprigs of Costmary, Ladslove, Rosemary, and Lavender, 
with perhaps a flower or two, in their bosoms when they 
went to church in the stifling hot summer days, and the 
memory of such customs calls up a picture drawn in poesy 
by Ovid,! when he says: ‘‘ Her hair is smoothed with a 
comb: now she decks herself with Rosemary, again with 
Violets or Roses, sometimes wears white Lilies, washes 
twice a day her face in springs that trickle from the top 
of the Pegasean wood; and twice she dips her body in 
the stream.” 
THe Five SENSES 
‘Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.”—George Herbert. 
Let us devote just a minute to the gateway arch of all 
human knowledge—the five primary senses. 
(1) We begin with ¢ouch or feeling because that is the 
mother sense, as it were, of allthe others. “To the young 
of all animals touch means warmth and food. You may 
1 Ovid, Met. xii. 409-15. B.C. 43-A.D. 18. 
