COME INTO THE GARDEN 



"There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners." 



— Hamlet, 



CHAPTER I 



The Garden's Place in Civilization 



RECOGNIZING the natural — and proper — ten- 

 dency of those who practice any art to re- 

 gard that art as peculiarly important, and as a 

 consequence to exalt its service to the human 

 race until it alone seems responsible for human 

 progress, I am nevertheless obliged to assert 

 that here is the one art without which the afore- 

 said race could never have emerged at all from 

 primitive conditions! Moreover, it is also true 

 that without it — I am speaking to the broadest 

 concept of it — mankind would speedily lose 

 everything held dear, and would slip back into 

 a condition very much more difficult and more 

 dangerous to survival, as well as very much less 

 worthy, than that occupied prior to the more or 

 less well-known dawn of civilization. 



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