&quot; To succeed in modifying the appearance of a flower is insignificant in 

 itself, if you will; but reflect upon it for however short a while, and it becomes 

 gigantic. Do we not violate, or deviate, profound, perhaps essential and, in any 

 case, time-honoured laws? Do we not exceed too easily accepted limits? Do 

 we not directly intrude our ephemeral will on that of the eternal forces? , . . And 

 the most modest victory gained in the matter oj a flower may one day disclose to 

 us an infinity of the untold&quot; MAETERLINCK. 



&quot;As Paradise (though of God s own planting) was no longer Paradise than 

 the man was put into it, to dress and keep it; so nor will our Gardens . . . remain 

 long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated&quot; 



JOHN EVELYN. 



