60 GLEANINGS ON GARDENS. 



CHAPTER IY. 



ON GARDEN BURIAL. 



SUCH has been the attachment of many to their 

 gardens and to the rural scenes of Nature, that 

 they have expressed a wish to be buried there. Mr. 

 Evelyn expressed the same wish, but was prevailed on 

 to alter it. Sir W. Temple's heart is enclosed in a 

 silver box and buried under a sun-dial in his favourite 

 garden. The late Lord Camelford was so charmed, 

 when travelling through Switzerland, with a rural spot 

 there, that he gave orders in his will to be buried 

 under a tuft of trees which he had marked in that 

 romantic country ; and a few years afterwards, when 

 he was shot in a duel near Kensington, his body was 

 accordingly conveyed there. No wonder he was struck 

 with the scenery of that country, when Hirschfeld 

 observes that * almost all the gardens are theatres of 

 true beauty, without vain ornaments or artificial 

 decorations.' Perhaps his lordship imbibed the soothing 

 wish of Beattie's Minstrel : 



' Let vanity adorn the marble tomb 

 With trophies, rhymes, and scutcheons of renown, 



In the deep dungeon of some gothic dome, 

 Where night and desolation ever frown. 



