HORTORUM LAUDES. 



TOIS 'AnO TflN KHnftN TAYTA XAPIZOMAI. 



*'2u TovTO irpos €/j.e iv t<^ K-qiri^ vtto rah dd(f>pais avrbs ^(prjada ipvevoijKevaW 



— Plato to Dionysius. 



"Cogito trans Tiberim hortos aliquos parare, et quidem ob hanc causam maxime : nihil 

 enim video quod tarn celebre esse ^ossit."— Cicero ad Atticuin. 



" Hie mihi magis arridet, ut est sua cuique sententia, etiam in Hortis." — Erasmus. 



" Adsis, nam Laudes nostri cantabimus Horti." — Gilbert Cousin^ 1552. 



" Mio picciol orto, 

 A me sei vigna, e campo, e silva, e prato." — Baldi. 



"In garden delights 'tis not easy to hold a mediocrity ; that insinuating pleasure is seldom 

 without some extremity-." — Sir Thomas Browne. 



" And I beseech you, forget not to informe yourselfe as dilligently as may be, in things that 

 belong to Gardening."^/(7^« Evelyn. 



" My Garden painted o'er 

 With Nature's hand, not Art's." — Cowley. 



" Consult the Genius of the Place in all." — Pope. 



" II faut cultiver notre Jardin." — Voltaire. 



" Les Jardins appelaient les champs dans leur sdjour ; 

 Les Jardins dans les champs vont entrer a leur tour : 



Chacun d'eux a ses droits ; n'excluons Tun ni I'autre 



Je ne decide point entre Kent, et Le Notre." — L'Abbe De Lille. 



"Peres de famille, inspirez \^ jardinoinanie a vos enfants." — Prince de Eigne. 



,,@inc mit ®i\^t be^eelte unb burcti ^iin^t emltiertc ^\ai\ix.''—Schiiier. 



" Nothing is more completely the child of Art than a Garden." — Sir Walter Scott. 



" Laying out grounds may be considered as a Liberal Art." — Wordsworth. 



" Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society." — Alfred Austin. 



" What may be called the literary history of gardening shall be succinctly and impartially 

 attempted." — Dallaway. 



" It is a natural consequence that those who cannot taste the actual fruition of a garden 

 should take the greater delight in reading about one. But the enjoyment next below actual 

 possession seems to be derived from writing on the topic." — Quarterly Review, 1851. 



" Any book I see advertised that treats of Gardens I immediately buy." 



" The Solitary Suvimer,'^ 1899. 



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