26 JANUARY. 



But what crowns all these advantages is, that, 

 though our towns shut us out from the country, 

 by our gardens we can bring the country, in 

 some degree, after us into the town. We have 

 them at our doors ; we contemplate them from 

 our quietest windows ; in some happier in- 

 stances, they surround, on all sides, our habita- 

 tions, and make us almost forget that we live 



In the dim and treeless town. 

 With the theory or economy of gardening my 

 work has nothing to do. Its business is only 

 with those amenities of Nature which the Sea- 

 sons present, ready arrayed to our view. For 

 this purpose I have given, each month, under 

 the head of " The Calendar of the Flower Gar- 

 den," a list of plants which come into bloom in 

 that month ; and as many plants bloom more 

 than one month, (some, many months,) a figure 

 at the end of the English name will denote the 

 latest month in which each particular plant is 

 in flower. This last will be found so copious, 

 that there are few gardens which contain the 

 whole ; but one will possess some, another, 

 others, and the Linnacan class and order being 

 given, many persons will be able to form a more 

 intimate acquaintance with the ornaments of 

 their gardens than they before had done. 



