62 GLEANINGS ON GARDENS. 



of this sovereign, took place on the night of the 

 25th, according to the wish expressed in his will. The 

 reigning Duchess, with her child on her arm, had, the 

 the evening before, strewed flowers round the grave. 

 The midnight hour struck, when the body entered the 

 garden, carried by the servants of the late duke. 

 The walk to the island was laid with black cloth, with 

 the boat that carried it over. The ceremony was only 

 interrupted by the sighs and tears of all present.' 



No one delighted more in horticulture and rural 

 affairs than Home Tooke. Cato, of Utica, could not 

 have exceeded him in this attachment. The inten- 

 tion of Tooke certainly was to have been buried 

 in his own garden, and he had prepared his vault and 

 tomb in his richly cultivated garden at Wimbledon, 

 where both Lord Camelford, and their joint friend, 

 Lord Thurlow,* with other men of rank, who admired 

 his integrity, his overpowering talents, and his 

 genius, were proud to partake of his society. Part of 

 the inscription which he had prepared for that tomb 

 was, that he died ' content and grateful : ' satisfied at 

 having lived so long, and gratefully feeling a high 

 sense of the Divine goodness in permitting it ; a 



* It was said of Lord Thurlow, that he was among lawyers and 

 orators, and in the senate and the courts, what Johnson was among 

 authors and wits : a mighty genius, proudly elevated above the 

 littleness of common minds. 



