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be welcome, I do not doubt, even to those gardeners who 

 know them best. 



"If great delights," writes Cowley, "be joined with so 

 much innocence, I think it is ill done of men not to take 

 them here, where they are so tame and ready at hand, 

 rather than to hunt for them in courts and cities, where 

 they are so wild, and the chase so troublesome and dan- 

 gerous. We are here among the vast and noble scenes of 

 nature, we are there among the pitiful shifts of policy ; we 

 work here in the light and open ways of the divine bounty, 

 we grope there in the dark and confused labyrinths of 

 human malice ; our senses here are feasted with the clear 

 and genuine taste of their objects, which are all sophisticated 

 there, and for the most part overwhelmed with their con- 

 traries. Here is harmless and cheap plenty ; there guilty 

 and expensive luxury." 



And Sir William Temple, after a long experience of all 

 the gratifications which honour and wealth could bring, 

 writes thus from his fair home and beautiful garden at 

 Moor Park : " The sweetness of air, the pleasantness of 

 smells, the verdure of plants, the cleanness and lightness of 

 food, the exercises of working or walking, but above all the 

 exemption from cares and solicitude, seem equally to favour 



