APPRECIATION 



camomile, swalloxv- wort, southernwood, lovage, dwarf 

 elder, hart's tongue, maidenhair, asrum, dogwort, 

 birthwort, horehound, spignell, bears-breech, sea 

 holly, madder, rhubarb, dog mercury, angelica, scurvy 

 grass, blessed thistle, tobacco, stinking arag, oak of 

 Jerusalem, and so forth. I might indefinitely pro- 

 long the list. What then I say is this, that we ig- 

 noramuses who know very little about it, can derive 

 a pure pleasure, not merely from the contemplation 

 of gardens, but from the reading of books about them. 

 When people are very much wearied by business, I 

 do not know of a better recipe to cheer and soothe their 

 minds than by taking up one or two books. One is a 

 book about gardens, which, if you shut your eyes after 

 reading it, enables you to see the picture before you, 

 and to lull yourself with imaginary sights and im- 

 aginary scents. Let me give you a passage out of Lord 

 Bacons essay which will illustrate what I mean. He 

 says this : " For the heath, which was the third part 

 of our plot, I wished it to be framed as much as may 

 be to a natural wildness. Trees I would have none 

 in it, but some thickets made only of sweetbrier and 

 honeysuckle, and some wild vines amongst ; and the 

 ground set with violets, strawberries, and primroses. 

 For these are sweet andproperin the shade. A nd these 



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