i8o THE ASSOCIATIONS OF FLOWERS 
CHAPTER XIX. 
Henna — Gardens in the East — Uses of Henna in Eastern 
Countries — Garden Balsam — Fur pie Loose - strife — 
Black Saltwort — Verses. 
No tree that is of count in greenwood growes, 
From lowest juniper to cedar tall ; 
No floure in fielde, that dainty odour throwes, 
And decks his branch with blossoms over all, 
But there was planted or grew naturall. 
• — Spenser. 
However great may be the pleasure which the inhabitants 
of temperate climates derive from the possession of a 
garden near their own homes, the delight which it affords 
those who live in the warmer climates of the world can 
perhaps hardly be imagined by any who have not felt the 
heat of a tropical sun, or the sultry air of the interior of 
an Eastern dwelling. 
As a shelter from the excessive heat of the climate, a 
garden combining both shade and water becomes almost 
necessary to the European who has left his ov,m country 
for a residence in India; while the rich natives of hot 
climates are remarkable for their love of these retreats, 
where they may luxuriate in that dreamy idleness so de- 
licious to the Oriental, and something of which we experi- 
ence in England on the noontide of a warm summer’s day. 
The Eastern gardens are filled with umbrageous ever- 
green trees, and with a great variety of the brightest - 
tinted flow'ers, whose lustre would be impaired by trans- 
plantation to our uncongenial clime. The growth of vege- 
tation is in warm countries so profuse and rapid that the 
