22 GARDENS PAST AND PRESENT 



Sloane to the Apothecaries Company towards the 

 end of the seventeenth century, is perhaps the only 

 other English garden of the kind which still re- 

 mains on its original site, and it is good to think 

 that it has not been removed to make way for 

 modern London improvements. 



Let us not think scorn of the work done by 

 these old gardens of simples, with their collec- 

 tions of plants which may seem to us now so 

 poor and meagre, for they form a very considerable 

 part of the early foundations, laid strong and deep, 

 of the grand superstructure of English gardening 

 which after-generations have built upon them. 



