172 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 
found v ;- a the selection of plants which, from early 
spring rill late autumn, brighten this romantic little 
garden. The Solatium jasminoides is none the less 
graceful because it has only found a home in sheltered 
corners in England, for the last seventy years. Cobaa 
scandens , which festoons very charmingly some of the 
arches, is certainly an old friend, having been over a 
hundred years in this country; but it is a new-comer 
when compared with the Passion Flower growing in 
profusion near it, and even that did not appear until 
after Shakespeare's death. It was unknown to Gerard, 
but his editor, Thomas Johnson, illustrates it in the 
appendix to the edition of t 6 ; ;• ft 1 mi then arrived 
from America. u whence d hath been brought into 
. 
t. U Hi b'' s \ -s-XUi HI?SOJV* 
. >- *• >.? s-wess I uf/gy and 
o'.end would nave rejoiced at the sight of the 
'"Ouse ?.n the centre of Brockwel! Park on a warm 
tooer day, thickly covered with the golden fruit as 
well as star-like flowers of their precious “ Maracoc or 
Passion-floured’ 
This delightful vailed garden was the old kitchen- 
: u. ru Xu-, v oho fashion for the gardens of a past 
■station v -. ■ -mg at the time the Park was pur- 
; ; h and r ' Ion County Council mmi he con- 
j' '1 or -d taste displayed in dealing who o, 
'.try oi position of the ground Is soou 
i ■ :■ ■ -• for a ;■ In this neighbour 1 *ood Iu : : 11 ose 
21% A 4 JJHW^iDOMS yim%AD H 8 IJ 0 FEH CLIO 
the vh w .• . R/>. 1 with m ?ne :■ ■■ a ere?:..* i uh, h vbaat 
