OF WILD GARDENS 89 



while the rabbits, none too welcome, play about 

 below and nibble the dewy herbage. Scarcely 

 another garden in the kingdom can be found, 

 probably, which unites so closely the charms of 

 the wild and the studied art of the garden. For 

 here art in Nature and Nature in art are so cun- 

 ningly intertwined that design is emptied of for- 

 mality and Nature robbed of her whilom rudeness. 

 In such a wild garden he who runs may read how 

 the lessons of the forest and the field may be laid 

 at the very threshold of our homes. 



