AFTERWORD 
Tuts Book, as the Reader must long ago have discovered, deals 
with gardens and gardeners discursively. 
I have freely used the privilege that I claimed at the beginning 
to introduce sometimes matter that might seem to have no direct 
bearing on the ostensible subject, if by so doing I could interest 
my readers in the men and women who made the gardens, or loved 
them ; as well as in the gardens themselves. 
I have not chosen for illustration by my pen or my brush, any 
garden, however picturesque, that is devoid of associations, histori- 
cal or biographical. 
On the other hand, I have admitted some that on esthetic grounds 
might well have been left out. But the steps of genius have paced 
their walks; and the good and the wise have rested, and dreamed, 
and thought, therein, Therefore I have introduced them ; knowing 
that if the influence of Man on the Garden has been great, great too, 
has been the influence of the Garden on Man. 
Printed at The Chapel River Press, Kingston, Swrrey. 
