8 THE GLORY OF THE GARDEN 



of plants by his researches and studies as to the 

 origin of species ; to say nothing of Mendel, 

 whose discoveries went far to revolutionise our 

 knowledge of genetic science and heredity. Dar- 

 win's achievement so far exceeded anything that 

 had been thought possible before, that what should 

 have been but a beginning, was hailed as the com- 

 pleted work. 



Professor Bateson, in his book on " Mendel's 

 Principles of Heredity," says: *' Had Mendel's 

 work come into the hands of Darwin, it is not too 

 much to say that the history of the development 

 of evolutionary philosophy would have been very 

 different from that which we have witnessed." 



" God Almighty first planted a garden. And, 

 indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the 

 greatest refreshment to the spirit of man, without 

 which buildings and palaces are but gross handi- 

 works. And a man shall ever see that when ages 

 grow to civility and elegance, men come to build 

 stately, sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening 

 were the greater perfection. I do hold it in the 

 royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens 

 for all the months in the year, in which severally 

 things of beauty may be then in season." 



Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam). 



