30 JANUARY. 



ever was far inferior, we may date the regene- 

 ration of English pleasure-gardens; and now 

 such delightful spots have we scattered through 

 the country, that the East from which we bor- 

 rowed them can scarcely rival them. The 

 imaginative mind cannot contemplate the as- 

 semblage, which, from all far-off lands, is there 

 brought together, without being carried by 

 them into their own fair regions, nor the reflec- 

 tive one, without being struck with the innu- 

 merable benefits we have derived from art and 

 commerce. 



But what crowns all these advantages is, 

 that, though our towns shut us out from the 

 country, by our gardens we can bring the 

 country, in some degree, after us into the town. 

 We have them at our doors ; we contemplate 

 them from our quietest windows ; in some hap- 

 pier instances, they surround, on all sides, our 

 habitations, and make us almost forget that we 

 live 



In the dim and treeless town. 



With the theory or economy of gardening my 

 work has nothing to do. Its business is only 

 with those amenities of Nature which the Seasons 

 present, ready arrayed to our view. For this 

 purpose I have given, each month, under the 



