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occasions, what has pleased his eye in different moods, 

 played upon his emotions, pricked his fancy, sug- 

 gested reverie, stirred vague yearnings, brought a 

 sense of quickened joy pastoral scenery, the music of 

 leaves and waters, the hues and sweetness of country 

 ilowers, the gladness of colour, picturesque form of 

 tree or contour of land, spring's bright laugh, 

 autumn's glow, summer's bravery, winter's grey 

 blanched face each thing that has gone home to 

 him has, in its way, fostered in man the garden mania. 

 Inspired by their beauty and mystery, he has gathered 

 them to himself about his home, has made a 

 microcosm out of the various detached details which 

 sum up the qualities, features, and aspects of the 

 open country ; and the art of this little recreated 

 world is measured by the happy union of naturalness 

 and of calculated effect. 



What sources of inspiration were discovered by 

 the new school of gardeners, I asked a moment ago, 

 which were not spared by English gardeners from 

 time immemorial ? The art of gardening, I said, 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 embroi- 

 dery of the meadows, the livery of the woods t 

 different seasons, or they would not have been capable 

 of building up that piece of hoarded loveliness, the 

 old-fashioned English garden ! 



The pleasaunce of old days has been mostly 

 stubbed up by the modern " landscape gardener," 

 but if no traces of them were left we have still here 



