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nation and every age, from his endeared Vaucluse, 

 thus speaks of his garden : " I have formed two ; I 

 do not imagine they are to be equalled in all the 

 world : I should feel myself inclined to be angry with 

 fortune, if there were any so beautiful out of Italy. 

 I have store of pleasant green walks, with trees sha- 

 dowing them most sweetly." Indeed, what Cicero 

 applies to another science, may well apply to horticul- 

 ture : " nihil est agricultures melius, nihil uberius, nihil 

 dulcius, nihil homine, nihil libero dignius." Let me 

 close with a most brilliant name ; the last resource 

 in the Candide of Voltaire is, cultivate your garden. 



In my transient review of the gardens of ancient 

 times, at the commencement of the following work, 

 I have not even glanced at those of the Saxons, in 

 this island ; when one should have thought that the 

 majestic name of ALFRED alone, would have made a 

 search of this nature interesting, even if such search 

 were unavailing. I have also inadvertently omitted 

 any allusion to those of the Danes and the Normans. 

 I have only then now to say, that Mr. Johnson's re- 

 searches, as to these gardens, in pp. 31, 37, 38, 39 



des que J'aurai dict ma lettre." The sleep and expanding of flow- 

 ers are most interestingly reviewed by Mr. Loudon in p. 187 of his 

 Encyclop., and by M. V. H. de Thury, in the above discourse, a 

 few pages preceding his seducing description of the magnificent 

 garden of M. de Boursault. 



So late ago as the year 1 804 it was proposed at Avignon, to erect 

 an obelisk in memory of Petrarch, at Vaucluse : " il a ete decide, 

 qu'on 1'elevcra vis-avis Vancten jardin de Petrache, lieu ou le lit de 

 sorgue forme un angle." 



