SECT. I. GARDENING. 



are her common apartments where she lodges her 

 ordinary guests: 'Thin is her cabinet of curiosities, 

 where she entertains her intimate acquaintance. My 

 eye shall often expatiate over those scenes of univer- 

 sal fertility: My feet shall sometimes brush through 

 the thicket, or traverse the lawn, or stroll along the 

 forest glade ; but to this delightful retreat shall be 

 my chief resort. Thither will I make excursions, 

 but here will I dwell." 



On the Kitchen Garden Mr. IT. observes, " Here 

 those celebrated qualities are eminently united, the 

 utmost simplicity with the greatest neatness : none 

 of the productions affect finery. If it be pleasing to 

 betide! their orderly situations, and their modest 

 beauties ; how delightful vo consider the advantages 

 they yield ! What a fund of choice accommoda- 

 tions here ! What a scurce of wholesome dainties, 

 and all for the enjoyment ot man ! Not one species 

 of all this is a cumbercr of the ground. Not a 

 single plant but is good for food, or some way salu- 

 tary. And with so beneficent an economy arc the 

 several periods of their ministration settled, that no 

 portion of the year is left destitute of such nourish- 

 ing esculents as are best suited to the temperature of 

 the air, and the state of our bodies. Oh! why 

 should the possessor of so valuable a spot envy the 

 condition of kings? Since he mav daily walk amidst 

 rows of peaceable and obsequious subjects ; every 

 one of which tenders him some agreeable present, 

 and pays him a willing tribute. Such as is most ex- 

 cellently adapted, both to supply his wants, and re- 

 gale his taste ; to furnish him at once with both 

 plenty and pleasure." 



From the amiable Cowper, who was much in his 

 garden, something on this subject may be added 

 the garden, iu his Poem, entitled the TAS 



