* * could scarcely be reconciled by all my fine words. 

 There was no buttering her parsnips. She talked 

 of the law. What a lapse to commit on the first 

 day of my happy " garden state " ! charks ^ 



Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in 

 one year, nor in one generation, even. 



"The Garden of a Commuter's Wife." 



(Mabel Osgood Wright.} 



To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, 

 to plant seeds and watch their renewal of life, this 

 is the commonest delight of the race, the most satis- 

 factory thing one can do. charlgs 



I think there are as many kinds of gardeners as 

 of poetry ; your makers of parterres and flower- 

 gardens are epigrammatists and sonneteers in this art ; 

 contrivers of bowers and grottos, treillages and cas- 



cades, are romance writers. 



Joseph Addison. 



Dr. Burgh in his notes on the English Garden 

 calls " Bacon, the prophet ; Milton, the herald; and 

 Addison, Pope and Kent, the champions " of this 

 true taste in gardening, because they absolutely 

 brought it into execution. D ~ n 



& Rev . james Dallaway. 



I often think, when working over my plants, of 

 what Linnaeus once said of the unfolding of a blos- 

 som : "I saw God in His glory passing near me, 

 and bowed my head in worship." j ghn 



