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a selection from many of his beautiful and famous drawings, I am 

 most sincerely grateful. 



To Mrs William Graham I am indebted for permission to copy 

 her lovely water-colour of ' The Lady in the Garden,' by Frederick 

 Walker, which makes so poetical a frontispiece, and Walker's own 

 comment strikes an admirable key-note to the book : ' The Garden 

 is the perfection of Peace and Loveliness.' 



To Miss Ella Sykes, author of 'Through Persia on a Side- 

 Saddle,' I owe my thanks for leave to use *the Garden of 

 Fin, at Kashan ' ; and for the sixth photogravure, ' In a Scotch 

 Walled Garden,' I am indebted to the photographic skill of my 

 brother-in-law, Mr A. G. Campbell, as well as for the view of 

 the Inn Garden at Nara, Japan, taken upon his travels. 



To Professor Brinckmann, Director of the Arts and Crafts 

 Museum at Hamburg, I am under deep obligation for the artistic 

 and altruistic impulse which prompted him to place at my disposal 

 and send to England a large case of rare engravings selected by 

 himself, at a sacrifice of great labour and time, from the fine and 

 perhaps unique historical collection of Garden Prints, which he 

 has formed for the Museum, and exhibited at the great Gardening 

 Exhibition in Hamburg, 1897. 



I must further thank Mrs W. A. Wills for her photograph 

 of the Pond Garden, at Hampton Court; and Mr George 

 Clausen, A.R.A., for procuring me the photograph of the Pom- 

 peian Garden. 



To the three chief Histories of Gardening in English, viz. : — 

 (i) The general one prefixed to J. C. Loudon's ' Encyclopaedia 

 of Gardening ' (1834), a masterly and exhaustive treatise, 

 which only requires to be brought down to date : 

 (ii) George W. Johnson's 'History of English Gardening' 

 (1829), which also strongly merits the honour of a second 

 edition : and 



