HISTORICAL A\D COMPARATIVE. 



among such scenery puts our senses on the alert, 

 and the impressions of natural phenomena supply 

 our device with all its imaofes. 



The Enprlish people had not to wait till the 

 eighteenth century to know to what they were in- 

 clined, or what would suit their countrj-'s adornment. 

 From first to last, we have said, the Enoflish crarden 

 deals much with trees and shrubs and erass. The 

 thought of them, and the artistic opportunities they 

 offer, is present in the minds of accomplished garden- 

 masters, travelled men, initiated spirits, like Sir 

 Thomas More, Bacon, Shaftesbury. Temple, and 

 Evelyn, whose aim is to orive cfarden-craft all the 

 method and distinctness of which it is capable. 

 However saturated with aristocratic ideas the cour- 

 tier-gardener may be, however learned in the cir- 

 cumspect stj-le of the Italian, he retains his native 

 relish for the woodland world, and babbles of 

 green fields. A sixteenth-century English gardener 

 (Gerarde) adjured his countr}men to "Go for- 

 warde in the name of God, graffe, set, plant, and 

 nourishe up trees in every corner of your grounde." 

 A seventeenth-century gardener (Evelyn) had orna- 

 mental landscape and shady woods in his garden as 

 well as pretty beds of choice flowers. 



"There are, besides the temper of our climate." 

 wTites another seventeenth-century garden-worthy 

 (Temple), "two things particular to us. that con- 

 tribute to the beauty and elegance of our gar- 

 dens, which are the gravel of our walks and the 

 fineness and almost perpetual greenness of our turf; 



