MUNSTEAD 

 . . WOOD, 



GODALMING 



A \\< >Vi the garden picture in 



/\ this book none should be 



L ^ more welcome than those of 



t * Munstead Wood, together 



with some a.vount of it and 



its environment, not only at the time 



>t those high midsummer pomps which Matthew Arnold lovi-d. 



hut also in those months of the dying yi-ar ot which town 



dwellers can hardly appreciate the quiet beauty. It is .1 garden 



of natural character, with some stonework features in it 



consonant with its architecture, hut depending lor its charm 



upon an abundant use of the glories of the tlowvr world. And. 



to begin with, we would surest that this modestly beautiiul 



house, its wood, and its Harden, may well become classical, 



in the same kind of way as that unobtrusive house in 



Sdborne Village, known for the Plestor and the Hanger. 



The books which Miss Jekyll has written in and about th- 



house and garden and wo;xJ she loves so well, have certainly 



something of the same spirit that gives such unfailing charm 



to Gilbert White's inimitable letters. They are books marked 



THE RESIDENCE 



or 



MISS JEttYLL. ^ 



by intimate knowledge ol Nature, and 

 b\ i lose .i| pi A i.ition "I tin- tvautv of 

 Nature, anJ ot the gm.dness ot the 

 w iv s ot tin- ol.l world. 



\ obxeivant man i.r unman can 

 doubt that the last \.ars ,.| the 

 la*t Century witnessed a wonderful revival, it not a 

 birth, ot love for the yaiJen world, <>r that ' '-I of 'he 



garden, "the purest ot luim.n pleasures." has now a fast 

 hold upon the lu-arts ol us ;i||, to our mamti-st ad\a ta^-. and 

 that the teachers ot that cult ot horticultine are. on the whole, 

 dly ti-lli'wship. Some there he, of course, who put on 

 the airs ot teaJier without warrant, and J'i but fhapsulise; 

 I ut simultaneously with tl em are to he louncl h\ing wt trrs 

 who practise what they preach, who, by so doing earnestly 

 and consistently. l:.i\ d 'lie a real service in :lu-ir generation. 

 Mr. William Kobuison, who began, many years a^,, ;i mission 

 in the cause of Nature which M-eim-d almost hopeless, has 

 lived to see his views in et with almost universal accept 

 insomuch that a certain amount of react on was brought al*>ut. 



THE GARDEN DOOk 



