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Give him a living interest in the\ garden by letting 

 him exercise his taste (subject always to your s\ in plant- 

 ing and in arrangement of colours, etc., and by show- 

 ing your own constant interest in it ; and if the man be 

 possessed of good Intelligence and Experience, if his heart 

 ts in his -work, if he has it in him to Succeed, succeed he 

 will. The garden and the gardener will grow as 

 it were, to understand one another, and you to trust 

 and understand them both, while your content and 

 gladness in the garden will increase and grow with 

 the year's increase. 



And here a grateful tribute must find place, for the 

 Gardener, JESSE FOULK, by whose rare skill this plot 

 grew into a Garden of Pleasure, whose ceaseless care has 

 maintained its charm for three-and-twenty summers, and 

 who completes the Thirtieth year of his devoted service 

 on the 22nd of May: with which well-omened date 

 I close my Preface. 



ELEANOR VERB BOYLE. 



HUNTERCOMBE MANOR, 



May, 1895. 



