CHAPTER XI 



Outside gardens — Autumnal tints — Anatomy of trees — 

 Removal of plants — Changes in the garden — Growth of 

 plants in November. 



When Horace Walpole described the great changes 

 in gardening which Kent had effected, he summed up 

 his work in a happy phrase, which has almost become 

 proverbial : ' He leaped the fence, and saw that all 

 nature was a garden.' The discovery led the way to 

 the modern landscape gardening, and to the destruc- 

 tion of the old English gardens, but I do not know 

 enough of Kent to say whether this idea of the un- 

 bounded extent of gardens was to him any real plea- 

 sure. But I have never considered that my garden 

 ended at the garden fence ; I have many outside 

 gardens in the woods and downs, the fields and hedge- 

 rows, and the rivers, and many also in my neighbours' 

 gardens, in all of which I can enjoy, almost as if they 

 were my own, many plants which it may be well to 



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