154 Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. 



we possess no actual record at first, because 

 they did not fall within the scheme of the 

 makers of the Nominah and the Glossary, 

 and had become too established and familiar 

 to attract special attention, when the earliest 

 writers on the garden appeared. 



It is only in a casual way that our acquaint- 

 ance with the contents of the Anglo-Saxon 

 or later English tool-house comes to us. Such 

 men as Evelyn and Worlidge did not dream 

 that we should like to have been informed, not 

 merely of the seasons and modes of planting 

 and pruning, and of the trees and plants 

 which our ancestors cherished and handed 

 down to us, but likewise that we should 

 care to have had it in our power to contrast 

 with the present facilities for managing a 

 garden those which prior generations en- 

 joyed. 



A pruning-hook is seen in the hand of one 

 of the figures in the plate illustrating April 

 in Stevenson's Twelve Moneths (1626-61). 

 In the same engraving a woman holds a 

 primitive watering-pot Stevenson, under 

 June, judiciously remarks : 



