The Rescue of an Old Place 



for no sooner do we evolve an idea and 

 put it in practice, than at every turn the 

 public press is crammed with views on this 

 very subject which it has never seen fit 

 to express previously. Hinc ilia lacrimce. 

 Knowledge Had all thatwe discovered later in print 



woif Id have , i > 



induced dis- been within our grasp in the beginning, 

 had modern ideas been fairly abroad, how 

 much easier everything would have been ! 

 But, also, how afraid we should have been 

 to undertake anything, having learned 

 thus that we ought never to build without 

 a landscape architect, never to plant with- 

 out the advice of an experienced land- 

 scape gardener, never to suffer from mis- 

 takes that could so easily be avoided by 

 proper appeals to a professional ! But all 

 this wisdom might as well have come in 

 the next century as just a year too late, 

 and so here we are, with all our blood 

 upon our heads, because we chanced to 

 dig our cellar and make our contract a 

 year or two before a certain eminent den- 

 drological journal was born. 



Gifts from As it was, we went to some scientific 

 f'ritnds. neighbors, who had done the same thing 

 we were doing thirty years before with 

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