" To succeed in modifying the appearance of a flower is insignificant in 

 itself, if you will; but reflect upon it for however short a while, and it becomes 

 gigantic. Do we not violate, or deviate, profound, perhaps essential and, in any 

 case, time-honoured laws? Do we not exceed too easily accepted limits? Do 

 we not directly intrude our ephemeral will on that of the eternal forces? . . . And 

 the most modest victory gained in the matter oj a flower may one day disclose to 

 us an infinity of the untold" MAETERLINCK. 



"As Paradise (though of God's own planting) was no longer Paradise than 

 the man was put into it, to dress and keep it; so nor will our Gardens . . . remain 

 long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated" 



JOHN EVELYN. 



