i56 OAKDKir UAHAGBMKBi: 



rise to the pt^fwibr tndition respecting St. Svitiun, vlioissiqqpOGedtolM^iixe 

 the a^^es in tius series of run j days. 



1363. **Tbe weeds of one coontry,'' as Dr. Edvard Danid Clufce ranaxfe 

 "' are the flowers of another ;^ and tndy m gbitee at oar garden puterres series 

 to caxty us in imagination to manr a distant cfim& Tbe damask rose, nov 

 in the folcess of its bkwm, grows wild in the sonnj plains of Syria. The 

 hoDjhodc, ooee known as the *^ Foragn Bose^" and now oommon in OTeij 

 cottage garden, is of Eastern origin. FodiEJai^ which now ha^vthdr crimson 

 and purple bells in emy gardoi, were tNroq^tbjeaterpnsang traTdkrs fruoa 

 the depths of antrardled Mexican forest^ where, batf^hidden beneath th»r 

 cro^cal fi^age, stand the rains of xast and rkhlf -seoi^ptared tanpks and 

 palaces <tf the M ontexumas, where abo was Samtd the pasaon-flower, whose 

 cradfi]fm ^lii^p^ whidi to the ima^^inatiTe and superst i tioas S^p«niard was a 

 •Tpe of Chris&oiity, donanded of hnn theoonTexsacnof theooontry, toaceom* 

 pli^ whidi he waded through seas of bloo^ — the jasmines, among Ute ddesfc 

 and sweetest of oar garden flowex^ especially the nj^-bloomnqg jasmine^ 



■*«kiAke«p 

 neir odoar to thenselras all dar ; 

 nit vlMtt tbe sn»4i^ift £ee any, 

 Xrrt Ae dcfieiotts fragnaee o«t 

 Tb ei«T tnew tk^ MMu abaw^* 



is still in greatreqaret ammg the wom^n cf the East, who are accug t o n ted to 

 decoarafce th^ hair with its flk>weis. 



1563. And tiien the xerbenas — harightest ornaments of the parterre — for 

 which we are indebted to the Kenr World, botii North and South—how 

 vivid their ddoming. In&ct» the East and tiieWest hare been ransai^ed 

 to deck ooor fiowo^ieds. **C9iiBa and Chthay, and the faacOiac Ind,"— no 

 cottntry mtder tibe sam is m u re pr esented in tiiem. The firoaen plains of Shena 

 send ns hatspars, golden CaKforaia her CSaitias, and B^nail the petanias. 



1364. The early garden firaits are also now in perfection ; the Uadk earxant 

 hangs like g titterin g xoonded jettf beads beneath iiss Iragrant leares ; tiie 

 goos^Mnies can scarcdty contain themsehes within tiieir hairy hasiks of ;re~:=. 

 and red ; white and red cnzxants hang fike pendent pearls and corak :r:ni 

 thor btoad-leaTed bongLs, ;j::i s^ra-s^berries, r^ie andrendyftr theban-a^s, 

 peep from nnder leares. 



§ 2.— FLOWEE-GaKTI^- A30 SH3rE3I3T. 



1565. Bie angularity obeerra: : 

 vrearing off as the plants apfvoa: 

 as the snnmeby o£ the desD^ c : 

 :>it, the object is to conceal art. 

 with one another; if tiie cnrwe 

 €ned is too sharp; or ij^ on the c: 



meet the eye, and the parts jar with _ -- 



pleta^ and MiififhJng is atilB reqfcL- _ . - ~r> 



