[5] Essay on "Wild Flowers," in The Open Air.

[6] So, too, had the poet Wordsworth; of whom William Morris, who disliked the Wordsworthian cult, used to say, in explanation of such antipathy: "The fellow couldn't smell."

[7] See the beautiful chapter on "The Living Garment," in Mr. W. H. Hudson's Nature in Downland.

[8] Quoted in A Garden of Herbs, by E. S. Rohde.

[9] From My Rock Garden, by Reginald Farrer, p. 257.

[10] Æneid, I. 691-4.

[11] See note on p. 12.

[12] Natural History of Selborne, ch. lvi.

[13] Thrice blest, if they but knew what joys are theirs!

[14] The Herball, by J. Gerarde. Enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson, 1636.