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pagoda-garden of Cathay which long swayed the 

 garden-design of Europe, as Chambers's Kew and 

 Essay on Chinese Gardening and Pre Attiret's 

 writings still testify whether it steep you in the 

 Canary intoxication of Mrs. Stepney Rawson's mid- 

 Atlantic " Enchanted Garden," or twine about the ear 

 and memory in the honeysuckle tendrils of the Comtesse 

 Matthieu de Noailles' verse, or the cadences of Mrs. 

 Meynell's or Vernon Lee's prose, or merely buzzes 

 and flutters around in the anarithmic swarms of latter- 

 day Garden-Diaries those twentieth-century " Books 

 of Beauty" 



O Jardins assouplis, pelouses caressees ! 



Everywhere in Life and Letters the Spirit of the 

 Time and of the Garden walk hand in hand and cast 

 their spell over our souls and bodies 



Tout englucs des teves du Jar din! 



But let us stop rhapsodising and return to Temple. 



One minor point in regard to Temple's work and 

 life need puzzle his readers no longer. The two 

 so-called Moor Parks in Hertfordshire and Surrey 

 were respectively Moor Park and More Park. 

 The house in which Temple last lived and died is 

 written thrice in his (probably) holograph Will, and 



