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i nllude lo uii^lit l»e worthily funiisluMl with the various 

 niniiiatic jiliints (nearly all hardy) which one meets with on 

 tlie wild liill-. sides of Southern France, and which include 

 Tliynie, Bahn, Mint, Eosemary, Lavender, and various other 

 old oarden favourites. 



True taste in the garden is iuihai)pily much rarer than 

 many people suppose. Xo amount of expense, rich collec- 

 tions, good cultivation, large gardens, and plenty of glass, will 

 suffice ; all these and nnich more it is not difficidt to see, but 

 a few acres of garden showing a real love of the beautiful in 

 Nature, as it can be illustrated in gardens, is rare, and when it 

 is seen it is often rather the result of accident than design. 

 This is partly owing to the fact that the kind of knowledge 

 one wants in order to form a really beautiful garden is very 

 unconmion. Xo man can do so with few materials. It is 

 necessary to have some knowledge of the enormous wealth 

 of beauty which the world contains for the adornment of 

 gardens ; and yet this knowledge must not have a leaning, or 

 liut very partially, towards the Dryasdust character. The 

 disposition to " dry " and name everything, to concern oneself 

 entirely with nomenclature and classification, is not in ac- 

 cordance with a true gardening spirit — it is the life we want. 

 The garden of the late Mr. Hewittson, at Weybridge, con- 

 tained some of the most delightful Ijits of garden scenery 

 Avhich I have ever seen. Below the house, on the slope over 

 the water of Oatlands Park, and Ijelow the usual lawn beds, 

 trees, etc., there is a piece of heathy ground which, when we 

 saw it, was charming beyond any power of the pencil to show. 

 The ground was partially clad with common Heaths with 

 little irregular green paths through them, and abundantly 



