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to be inoculated with old Gerarde of the garden- 

 mania as he bursts forth, " Go forwarde in the name 

 of God : graffe, set, plant, nourishe up trees in every 

 corner of your grounde ; " to trace with Temple the 

 lines and features that go to make the witchery of the 

 garden at Moor Park, " in all kinds the most beau- 

 tiful and perfect, at least in the Figure and Disposition, 

 that I have ever seen," and which you may follow if 

 you are not " above the Regards of Common Expence;" 

 to hearken to Bacon expatiate upon the Art which is 

 indeed " the purest of all humane pleasure, the 

 greatest refreshment to the Spirits of man ; " to feel 

 in what he says the value of an ideal, the magic of a 

 style backed by passion to have garden precepts 

 wrapped in pretty metaphors (such as that " because 

 the Breath of Flowers is far Sweeter in the Air where 

 it comes and goes like the warbling of Musick than 

 in the Hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that 

 Delight than to know what be the Flowers and Plants 

 that do best perfume the Air ; ") to be taught how to 

 order a garden to suit all the months of the year, 

 and have the things of beauty enumerated according 

 to their seasons to feel rapture at the sweet- 

 breathing presence of Art in a garden to learn from 

 one who knows how to garden in a grand manner, 

 and yet be finally assured that beauty does not 

 require a great stage, that the things thrown in " for 

 state and magnificence " are but nothing to the true 

 pleasure of a garden this is garden-literature 

 worth reading ! 



Compared with the frank raptures of such 



