4O Gleanings in Old Garden Literature, 



the triumphs of the politician and the 

 soldier. 



I would particularly solicit the attention of 

 the reader to Evelyn's letter to the Earl of 

 Sandwich, of August 2ist, 1668, in which he 

 exhibits his enthusiasm for the study no less 

 than his mastery of the details. It is to be 

 recollected that at this time there was a 

 method of transporting plants and roots from 

 distant places in barrels. 



Nor can I forbear to put on paper my 

 pleasurable feeling about Evelyn and Pepys, 

 that they seem, both of them alike, to form 

 an inseparable part of the period to which 

 they belonged. You cannot touch any point 

 appertaining to the social and domestic 

 affairs of the second half of the seventeenth 

 century, without finding yourself in contact 

 somehow with them ; and they are names 

 which do not pall by repetition. 



The Systema Horticulture of John Wor- 

 lidge (1677) was apparently the earliest 

 manual for the guidance of those forming and 

 cultivating gardens, and it deals methodically 

 and seriatim with the treatment and virtue of 



