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GARDENS OF VARIOUS NATIONS, 



For in this chapter I have endeavoured to show the various manners 

 which different nations have had, of laying out gardens, according 

 to the accounts -which have been given to us, or to what I have myself 

 observed in Europe. 



We see that the love for gardening, or for nature, is not dependent 

 either on a torrid, frigid, or temperate zone ; but that in certain 

 nations, as in certain individuals of a nation, it is more innate than in 

 others ; and we further see, that the art of gardening, whilst advancing 

 in some nations, declines in others. But those persons who have ever 

 enjoyed the calm repose of a garden, have watched the growth and 

 habits of the various plants, delighted in the sweet music of the birds 

 which dwell therein, will feel that " we are instinctively led, amid the 

 everlasting change in nature, to feel the harmony of the wondrous 

 powers pervading all things. He who contemplates them with the eye 

 of the soul, feels the littleness of man amid the greatness of the 

 universe." 



