ROHDE, Eleanour Sinclair.   IVY COTTAGE. EWYAS HAROLD.   Notes On The Herb Garden.    N.P.   1935.          A manuscript garden notebook prepared by the notable herbalist and garden historian Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. These notes, written about her plan for an herb garden at Ivy Cottage in Ewyas Harold on the Herefordshire border, address her concerns for site, soil, planting effect and plant material. She writes that she made the lay-out on broad lines and sought a planting effect that "is that of a picture by an old Dutch master." She encourages the use of old fashioned pot marigold (Calendula officinalis) and of Salvia Schlarea vaticanus (unobtainable from all nurseries but hers). The garden is planned so that there is evergreen in every bed, and the color effects to be achieved in planting against a lavender hedge are discussed. The merits and cultivation requirements of her preferred herbs are noted. She also refers to her book, GARDENS OF DELIGHT, for more information on the uses of certain plants. Among her concluding thoughts is one on sundials. A sundial is appropriate for the "hub" of the garden only if it is a very old one (i.e. Tudor), as modern ones do not look right. She concludes her notes by recommending two quotes from Shakespeare that seemed to her to have been inspired by sundials.   Ruled notebook measuring 16.2 x 10.2 cm; 96 pp. of which 57 pp. contain the hand-written account, written on rectos only; 3 sketches on 3 versos.            Original flexible cloth with title handwritten in green ink on upper cover. $1,000.00

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