CHAPTER XI 



j^ofcember 



Outside gardens Autumnal tints Anatomy of trees- 

 Removal of plants Changes in the garden Growth of 

 plants in November. 



WHEN Horace Walpole described the great changes 

 in gardening which Kent had effected, he summed up 

 his work in a happy phrase, which has almost become 

 proverbial : ' He leaped the fence, and saw that all 

 nature was a garden.' The discovery led the way to 

 the modern landscape gardening, and to the destruc- 

 tion of the old English gardens, but I do not know 

 enough of Kent to say whether this idea of the un- 

 bounded extent of gardens was to him any real plea- 

 sure. But I have never considered that my garden 

 ended at the garden fence ; I have many outside 

 gardens in the woods and downs, the fields and hedge- 

 rows, and the rivers, and many also in my neighbours' 

 gardens, in all of which I can enjoy, almost as if they 

 were my own, many plants which it may be well to 



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