21 MAY 1927, Page 15

GARDENS OF THE BIBLE

i[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—On reading the article on the above subject, one is reminded of the lines quoted by George Borrow in his Wild Wales "In a garden the first of our race was deceived ;

In a garden the promise of grace he received ;

In a garden was Jesus betray'd to His doom ; • In a garden His body was laid in the tomb."

Borrow was .wandering in the Valley of Gelert on his way to Festiniog, and found the lines in a book of poems in Welsh written by one Robert Williams. The volume belonged to a woman who kept an inn, ostensibly for the supply of tea only, and much to the traveller's disgust he was unable to obtain bis favourite beverage, "good ale." The hostess, however, eventually produced whisky.---! am, Sir, &c.,