AFTERWORD 



THIS Book, as the Reader must long ago have discovered, deals 

 with gardens and gardeners discursively. 



I have freely used the privilege that I claimed at the beginning 

 to introduce sometimes matter that might seem to have no direct 

 bearing on the ostensible subject, if by so doing I could interest 

 my readers in the men and women who made the gardens, or loved 

 them ; as well as in the gardens themselves. 



I have not chosen for illustration by my pen or my brush, any 

 garden, however picturesque, that is devoid of associations, histori- 

 cal or biographical. 



On the other hand, I have admitted some that on aesthetic grounds 

 might well have been left out. But the steps of genius have paced 

 their walks ; and the good and the wise have rested, and dreamed, 

 and thought, therein. Therefore I have introduced them ; knowing 

 that if the influence of Man on the Garden has been great, great too 9 

 has been the influence of the Garden on Man. 



Printed at The Gliapel River Press, Kingston, Surrey. 



