HORTORUM LAUDES. 



TOIS 'AIIO TilN KHHHN TAYTA XAPIZOMAI. 



" Si) TOVTO irpbs (it tv T$ ic/jTTy virb rats d&<j>vais ai/r6s 



Plato to Dionysius. 



"Cogito trans Tiberim hortos aliquos parare, et quidem ob hanc causam maxime : nihil 

 enim video quod tarn celebre esse possit." Cicero ad Atticum. 



" Hie mihi magis arridet, ut est sua cuique sententia, etiam in Hortis." Erasmus. 

 " Adsis, nam Laudes nostri cantabimus Horti." Gilbert Cousin, 1552. 



"Miopicciol orto, 

 A me sei vigna, e campo, e silva, e prato." Baldi. 



" In garden delights 'tis not easy to hold a mediocrity ; that insinuating pleasure is seldom 

 without some extremity." Sir Thomas Browne. 



" And I beseech you, forget not to informe yourselfe as dilligently as may be, in things that 

 belong to Gardening." -John Evelyn. 



' ' My Garden painted o'er 

 With Nature's hand, not Art's." Coiuley. 



" Consult the Genius of the Place in a\\"Pope. 

 " II faut cultiver notre Jardin." Voltaire. 



11 Les Jardins appelaient les champs dans leur sejour ; 

 Les Jardins dans les champs vont entrer a leur tour : 



Chacun d'eux a ses droits ; n'excluons 1'un ni 1'autre 



Je ne decide point entre Kent, et Le Notre." UAlbe De Lille. 



"Peres de famille, inspirez \tjardinomanie a vos enfants." Prince de Ligne. 



(Sine mit ei6t beSeelte unb burcfy JtunSt emltierte 9latur." Schiller. 



11 Nothing is more completely the child of Art than a Garden." Sir Walter Scott. 



" Laying out grounds may be considered as a Liberal Art." Wordsworth. 



" Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society." Alfred Austin. 



" What may be called the literary history of gardening shall be succinctly and impartially 

 attempted." Dallaway. 



" It is a natural consequence that those who cannot taste the actual fruition of a garden 

 should take the greater delight in reading about one. But the enjoyment next below actual 

 possession seems to be derived from writing on the topic." Quarterly Review, 1851. 



" Any book I see advertised that treats of Gardens I immediately buy." 



" The Solitary Summer" 1899. 



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