GLEANINGS 



IN 



OLD GARDEN LITERATURE. 



I. 



PRELIMINARIES. 



[RS. MATTHEWS, in her Memoirs 

 of her husband, 1839, mentions 

 the gratification which it afforded 

 Coleridge, when he came from the Gilmans', 

 to visit them at Highgate Hill, to walk 

 round the garden and gather a handful of 

 flowers to take home with him. 



We know how some of the wisest and 

 best of mankind have delighted in gardens. 

 Even such an inveterate Londoner as Charles 

 Lamb, when he went down to live at Edmon- 

 ton, took a pleasure in superintending the 



