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Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1895, 
ENGLISH GARDENING. 
MES AMHERST is well known to all lovers 
of old gardening literature for her publi- 
cation in last year 
n 
Ion, Gardener," and the careful way in which that 
interesting treatise was edited by her, showed 
that she was well capable of larger efforts in the 
literature of gardening. The handsome volume 
now before us bears ample testimony not only 
to her skill and perseverance, but to her power 
of massing together a very large amount of petty 
details into a book that is throughout very plea- 
sant reading.“ The foundation of the book was 
enth century and e Жар down our 
tell us more of the earlier periods, even starting 
from the departure of the Romans, for though 
the accounts of i 
are very meagre, there is yet enough to show 
that from the very first the English were a 
nation of gardeners; and there is a good record 
that in the eighth century, when the Anglo- 
Saxons were using the Latinised names, of which 
Miss Amherst gives a list on p. 3, there was a 
far larger number of true native British names 
of plants, showing that the Englishmen of that 
pe were sufliciently acquainted with plants 
to give them distinot eram 
gardening, as indeed m 
nations, is largely 8 with 
history, and this Miss . brings out very 
well; her first sentence is, The history of the 
gardens of England follows step by step the 
history of the people. In times of peace and 
plenty they increased and flourished, and during 
y war and diat nud uam 
Nez 80 де shows w i 
the way кам gardening 
бөөн ‘ba tary, in 
peace whioh followed ^ de^ кеййн с nd 
Wars of the Roses . . the 
longer of necessity confined within the embattled 
castle walls . . . and the custom came 
having gardens beyond it. With this ade 
space, there was more soope for play of fancy, 
and before long several changes in design came 
in." From that time to our own the progress of 
gardening has been uninte and Miss 
Amherst takes us through the gardens of the 
* A History Aras di in mde By the Hon. Alicia Alicig 
Amherst. London: Quari 
