blossomed in the gardens 

 were very few, no doubt, and ven 

 - V humble, scarce to be distinguished from^t! 

 S the fields and the glades. Have you cv 

 c poverty and the monotony, most skilfully d; 

 the floral decoration of the finest miniatures in our 

 scripts? Again, the pictures in our museums, d 

 id of the Renascence period, have only five or ^ 

 .., .;_.. _ntly repeater^ whprpwith to enliven ... 

 pHiaces, the most marvellous vcvi of Paradise. Be 

 sixteenth century, our gardens were almost bare; and, . 

 Versailles itself, V o^Vj.. '^^^^ shown u 



only what the poorest village shows to-day. Alone. 

 Violet, the Daisy, the ^ ^ , Vlarigolrl, 



Poppy, a few Crocuse* '^ ^'^^^' TrUp»c -^ f^-v* p .■ 'n*. 

 Foxglove, the Valerian, tne juaiKb 

 V¥ild Pink, the Forgct^mc-not, the Giliyii 

 tie Rose, still almost a Swcetbriar, and 



itaneous ornaments of our woods and of oi 

 frifrhtened, wind-frightened fields: these alone s: 

 fathers, who, for that matter, were un«*v 

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