&quot;Pleasures which nowhere else were to he found 

 And all Elysium in a plot oj ground&quot; DRYDEN. 



&quot; The art of gardening has its root in man s enthusiasm for the woodland 

 world. See how closely the people of old days must have observed the sylvan 

 sights oj nature, the embroidery oj the meadows, the livery oj the woods at dif 

 ferent seasons, or they would not have been capable oj building up that piece oj 

 hoarded loveliness, the old-fashioned English garden.&quot; JOHN D. SEDDING. 



