. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. ll. Many drink the decoction (cold and sweetened withsugar) instead of water during the summer months. Then there iswild Rosemary (Romero macho), which, being the common brush-wood of the hills, commands no price at all; a decoction of it is usedhot, to bathe limbs in cases of rheumatism ; or a few drops of itsessence are put into the coarse Aguardiente of the country to givea fine flavour ; or it may be used as a wash for the hair, although aSpanish womans halo of glory seldom needs such stimulants. Thereis the Cap
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. ll. Many drink the decoction (cold and sweetened withsugar) instead of water during the summer months. Then there iswild Rosemary (Romero macho), which, being the common brush-wood of the hills, commands no price at all; a decoction of it is usedhot, to bathe limbs in cases of rheumatism ; or a few drops of itsessence are put into the coarse Aguardiente of the country to givea fine flavour ; or it may be used as a wash for the hair, although aSpanish womans halo of glory seldom needs such stimulants. Thereis the Captosera, or universal specific for colic and diarrhoei; Jolivarda and Brusco, Manzanilla, or wild Camomile, good forcreating appetite, and curing the pains of limbs, after fevers; , a sort of large Thyme, a decoction of which will stanch aflow of blood from a stab or cut, or act as a tonic on a weak stomach •bark of wild Pomegranate, as a decoction to tape-worm • abeautiful species of Fern, called Falagera, poisonous, but useful tobathe rheumatic limbs,. 294 THE GARDEN. [Mah. 25, 1876. PUBLIC PARKS. By FREDERICK LAW PARK is a space of ground used for public or private recrea-tion, differing from a garden in its spaciousness and the broad,simple, and natural character of its scenery, and from a wood in the more scattered arrangement of its trees andfrref>ter expanse of its glades, and consequently of its land-scapes. For the sake of completeness, recreation grounds notproperly called parks will be considered under the same grounds of an old English country seat are usuallydivided into two parts, one enclosed within the other andseparated from it by some form of fence. The interior part,immediately around the dwelling, is distinguished as the plea-sure crround or kept ground, the outer as the park. The parkis often left open to the public, and frequently the public havecertain legal rights in it, especially rights of way. The use ofthe
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