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to be inoculated with old Gerarde of the garden- 

 mania as he bursts fortli, " Go forward in the name 

 of God : graffe, set, plant, nourishe up trees in every 

 corner of your grounde ; " to trace with Temple the 

 lines and features that go to make the witchery of the 

 garden at Moor Park, "in all kinds the most beau- 

 tiful and perfect, at least in the Figure and Disposi- 

 tion, that I have ever seen," and which you may 

 follow if \ou are not " above the Regards of Common 

 Expence ; " to hearken to Bacon expatiate upon the 

 Art which is indeed " the purest of all humane 

 pleasure, the greatest refreshment to the Spirits of 

 man ; " to feel in what he says the value of an ideal, 

 the magic of a style backed by passion — to have 

 garden precepts wrapped in pretty metaphors (such 

 as that " because the Breath of Flowers is far Sweeter 

 in the Air — zi<liere it conies and goes like the warbling 

 of Alusick — than in the Hand, therefore nothing is 

 more fit for that Delight than to know what be the 

 Flowers and Plants that do best perfume the Air ; ") 

 — to be taufjht how to order a Qrarden to suit all the 

 months of the year, and have things of beauty 

 enumerated according to their seasons — to feel 

 rapture at the sweet-breathing presence of Art in a 

 garden — to learn from one who knows how to garden 

 in a grand manner, and yet be finally assured that 

 beauty does not require a great stage, that the things 

 thrown in " for state and masfnificence " are but 

 nothing to the true pleasure of a garden — this is 

 garden-literature worth reading ! 



Compared with the frank raptures of such 



