" 'What is a garden? 9 It is man's report of earth at her best. It is earth 

 emancipated jrom the commonplace. It is man's love of loveliness carried to 

 excess man's craving for the ideal grown to a fine lunacy. It is piquant won- 

 derment; culminated beauty that, for all its combination of telling and select items, 

 can still contrive to look natural, debonair, native to its place." 



JOHN D. SEDDING. 



