&quot; What is a garden?* It is man s report of earth at her best. It is earth 

 emancipated from the commonplace. It is man s love of loveliness carried to 

 excess man s craving for the ideal grown to a fine lunacy. It is piquant won 

 derment; culminated beauty that, for all its combination of telling and select items, 

 can still contrive to look natural, debonair, native to its place.&quot; 



JOHN D. SEDDING. 



