EDITOR S NOTE 



House is surrounded with extensive plantations 

 and well-cultivated grounds." Their beauty was 

 probably due to the care bestowed upon them by 

 the untiring efforts of this wise old gardener. 



We must return to the old authors of gardening 

 books, such, for instance, as the work before us, if, 

 to quote Bacon's well-known words, we would know 

 " the true pleasure of a garden." 



The Scots Gard'nerwas published fifty years after 

 Parkinson's ever-delightful Paradisi in Sole, Para- 

 disus Terrestris, and, in many ways, the charms of 

 both books are similar. In the case of John Reid, 

 we must not be too exact about fine writing, and 

 forgive him for his faulty syntax. The following 

 pages stand as originally written ; only in a few 

 places have grammatical errors been remedied. 



My thanks are due to Lord Rosebery for so kindly 

 allowing me to add his appreciation of the book 

 which was embodied in a speech made by him in 

 Waverley Market, Edinburgh, September 1901. 



To what he has already said it would be super- 

 fluous for me to add further words in praise of 

 The Scots Gardner. 



ALFRED H. HYATT. 



Autumn 1906. 



