PREFACE 



THE concluding pages for the month of June 

 appeared in an extended form as an article 

 on " The Vogue of the Garden Book " in the 

 Nineteenth Century Review for June, 1900 ; the 

 description of the May-day revels is condensed 

 from a story in the Cornhill Magazine of June, 

 1897 '> tne incident of Meshach Werge's treasure 

 appeared in the number of In Town for January, 

 1897 J an d four other short sketches have been 

 published in The Country and the St. James s 

 Gazette. 



To the editors of those periodicals I beg to offer 

 my thanks for their kind permission to use the 

 articles or portions of them here. 



I am grateful also to two friends for help in the 

 chapters on the country and garden in autumn. 



H. M. B. 



HOE BENHAM 



November, 1902 



