VIII. 



WINDOW-GARDENING COTTAGE GARDENS 

 IN 1677 INFLUENCE OF ASTROLOGY 

 WARMING APPARATUS VARIEGATION 

 OF FOLIAGE. 



jjHE taste for window-gardening is of 

 very remote antiquity, and even 

 before the use of glass the lattice 

 was embowered in foliage and flower, or 

 the hardy out-of-door vine the "vinettes 

 running in the casements" of the poet 

 Lydgate. Alexander Neckam, who flourished 

 in the twelfth century, long before Dan 

 John, makes us love the damsels of his day, 

 and think that they must have had other 

 gentle and pretty tastes, when, in his treatise 

 Of the Nature of Things, he tells us of their 

 fondness for this innocent and sweet species 

 of decoration. 



