"Pleasures which nowhere else were to be found 

 And all Elysium in a plot o) ground. 1 ' DRYDEN. 



"The art of gardening has its root in man's enthusiasm for the woodland 

 world. See how closely the people of old days must have observed the sylvan 

 sights of nature, the embroidery o) the meadows, the livery of the woods at dif- 

 ferent seasons, or they would not have been capable of building up that piece of 

 hoarded loveliness, the old-fashioned English garden.'' JOHN D. SEDDING. 



