nation and every age, from his endeared Vancluse, 

 thus speaks of his garden : " I have formed two ; I 

 do not imagine they are to be equalled in all the 

 world : I should feel myself inclined to be angry with 

 fortune, if there were any so beautiful out of Italy. 

 I have store of pleasant green walks, with trees sha- 

 dowing them most sweetly." Indeed, what Cicero 

 applies to another science, may well apply to horticul- 

 ture : " nihil est agriculturce melius, nihil uberius, nihil 

 dulcius, nihil homine, nihil libero dignius." Let me 

 close with a most brilliant name ; — the last resource 

 in the Candide of Voltaire is, — cultivate your garden. 



In my transient review of the gardens of ancient 

 times, at the commencement of the following work, 

 I have not even glanced at those of the Saxons, in 

 this island ; when one should have thought that the 

 majestic name of Alfred alone, would have made a 

 search of this nature interesting, even if such search 

 were unavailing. I have also inadvertently omitted 

 any allusion to those of the Danes and the Normans. 

 I have only then' now to say, that Mr. Johnson's re- 

 searches, as to these gardens, in pp. 31, 37, 38, 39 



des que J'aurai diete ma lettre." The sleep and expanding of flow- 

 ers are most interestingly reviewed by Mr. Loudon in p. 187 of his 

 Encyclop., and by M. V. H. de Thury, in the above discourse, a 

 few pages preceding his seducing description of the magnificent 

 Harden of M. de Boursault. 



So late ago as the year 1801 it was proposed at Avignon, to erect 

 an obelisk in memory of Petrarch, at Vancluse : " il a ete decide, 

 qu'on l'61evera vis-avis Vancicn jardm de Pctrache, lieu ou le lit de 

 sorffue forme mi angle.' 1 



