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no exclusions," and I certainly would exclude 

 nothing that is good in the present system. 

 Bedding-out is occasionally very effective and 

 sometimes necessary; and, on the other hand, a 

 garden such as I saw suggested somewhere the 

 other day which should contain only flowers 

 known to Chaucer, would be extremely disap- 

 pointing. However, bedding-out can take very 

 good care of itself, and Chaucerian gardens will 

 not be largely popular. Meanwhile, I sincerely 

 hope that flowering shrubs and hardy herbaceous 

 plants may be far more generally grown and 

 cared for than they are at present. 



It has seemed on the whole best to leave 

 this Essay as it was written. I have made a 

 few verbal corrections and inserted one or two 

 short sentences, and that is all. I have, how- 

 ever, added illustrative Notes on points which 

 seemed of some little interest. 



