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fragrant flowers the garden produces. It was near 

 Milford Haven that Imogen strewed her supposed 

 husband's grave with * wild-wood leaves and weeds ; ' 

 and where Arviragus sweetened the sad grave of 

 Fidele ' with fairest flowers/ asserting that the red- 

 breast would, with its charitable bill, bring all this, 



' Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none, 

 To winter-ground thy corse.' 



Mr. Cunningham tells us that ' Burns lay in a 

 plain unadorned coffin, with a linen sheet drawn over 

 his face ; and on the bed, and around the body, herbs 

 and flowers were thickly strewn, according to the 

 usage of the country.'* 



Mr. Carter in his late spirited address, read before 

 the New York Horticultural Society, says : * Wilson, 

 the distinguished Ornithologist, made a particular 

 request but a few hours before his death, that he 

 might be buried in some rural spot, on the banks of 

 the Sehuykill, where the birds might sing over his 

 grave. This sentiment was true to nature ; for let 

 philosophy preach as it may, our cares and anxieties, 

 our feelings and affections, will extend to the un- 

 conscious dust.' 



The following description of an ancient Greek 

 garden is interesting : * II est plante de cypres, 



*'.... Sepulchrum floribus ornare.' Cicero. 



