going out to her garden, on an April morning, with 

 her great calash, her little painted basket of seeds, 

 and her rake over her shoulder to her garden of 

 labours. A woman in very easy circumstances and 

 abundantly gentle in form and manners would sow 

 and plant and rake incessantly." 



Good huswives provide, ere an sickness do come, 

 Of sundrie good things in house to have some : 

 Good aqua composita, vinegar tart, 

 Rose water and treacle to comfort the heart, 

 Good herbes in the garden for agues that burn, 

 That over strong heat to good temper turn. 



Thomas Tusser. 



My garden was a plain vineyard when it came 

 into my hands not two years ago, and it is with a 

 small expense, turned into a garden that (apart from 

 the advantages of the climate) I like better than 

 that of Kensington. The Italian vineyards are not 

 planted like those in France, but in clumps, fastened 

 to trees planted in equal ranks (commonly fruit trees), 

 and continued in festoons from one to the other, 

 which I have turned into covered galleries of shade, 

 that I can walk in the heat without being incom- 

 moded by it. 



I have made a dining-room of verdure, capable 

 of holding a table of twenty covers; the whole 

 ground is 317 feet in length, and 200 in breadth. 

 You see it is far from large ; but so prettily disposed 

 (though I say it) that I never saw a more agreeable 

 rustic garden, abounding with all sorts of fruit, and 

 producing a variety of wines. 



Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. 

 (A Letter, dated Louvere, July loth, 1753.) 



Any book I see advertised that treats of Gardens 

 I immediately buy. (( Thg So/ . (ary Summgr ,, 



(Countess von Arnim.} 



