VII. 



THE ANCIENT AND MODERN ARBOUR 

 GROTTOES GARDEN LIFE. 



JHE description of the squire's 

 garden in the delightful romance 

 of the Squire of Low Degree is 

 worth copying, because it corroborates the 

 notion as to the indiscriminate arrangement 

 of early times, even allowing for the exigen- 

 cies of metre : 



" The tree it was of cypress, 

 The first tree that Jesu chose : 

 The sothern-wood and sycamore, 

 The red rose and the lily flower : 

 The box, the beech, and the laurel-tree : 

 The date, also the damist ; 

 The filberts hanging to the ground : 

 The fig-tree and the maple round : 

 The peony, the poplar, and the plane. " 



But more noteworthy, perhaps, is the fact 



