INTRODUCTORY LETTER. 



manner of grotesque sketches along its bark? 

 Now, truly, one may not learn from this little 

 book either divinity or horticulture ; but if he 

 gets a pure happiness, and a tendency to repeat 

 the happiness from the simple stores of Nature, 

 he will gain from our friend s garden what Adam 

 lost in his, and what neither philosophy nor 

 divinity has always been able to restore. 



Wherefore, thanking you for listening to a 

 former letter, which begged you to consider 

 whether these curious and ingenious papers, 

 that go winding about like a half-trodden path 

 between the garden and the field, might not be 

 given in book-form to your million readers, I 

 remain, yours to command in everything but 

 the writing of an Introduction, 



HENRY WARD BEECHER. 



