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recognize and appreciate the sense of 

 beauty when seen under the humblest 

 circumstances. "Such is its pre-excel- 

 lency, that there is scarce a cottage in 

 most of the southern parts of England 

 but hath its proportionable garden, so 

 great a delight do most of men take in it, 

 that they may not only please themselves 

 with the view of the flowers, herbs, and 

 trees, as they grow, but furnish them- 

 selves and their neighbours upon extra- 

 ordinary occasions, as nuptials, feasts, and 

 funerals, with the proper products of 

 their gardens." 



This statement by Worlidge is espe- 

 cially interesting to us, as the pleasant 

 memories connected with these small 

 plots about their homes were brought 

 over by Puritan and Pilgrim from various 

 parts of England, with an earnest desire 

 to reproduce them as far as possible upon 

 these shores. 



That Evelyn was influenced by similar 

 general principles is made evident by 

 his own estate at Saye's Court, Herts, 



