* * could scarcely be reconciled by all my fine words. 

 There was no buttering her parsnips. She talked 

 of the law. What a lapse to commit on the first 

 day of my happy "garden state " ! Charles Lamb. 



Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in 

 one year, nor in one generation, even. 



"The Garden of a Commuter's Wife." 



{Mabel Osgood Wright.^ 



To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, 

 to plant seeds and watch their renewal of life, — this 

 is the commonest delight of the race, the most satis- 

 factory thing one can do. c/i<7r/.. Dudle, Warner. 



I think there are as many kinds of gardeners as 

 of poetry ; your makers of parterres and flower- 

 gardens are epigrammatists and sonneteers in this art ; 

 contrivers of bowers and grottos, treillages and cas- 

 cades, are romance writers. ^^^^^^ ^^^.^^^^ 



Dr. Burgh in his notes on the English Garden 



calls " Bacon, the prophet ; Milton, the herald; and 



Addison, Pope and Kent, the champions " of this 



true taste in gardening, because they absolutely 



brought it Into execution. d •* n // 



D Rev. James Dallateay. 



I often think, when working over my plants, of 

 what Linnaeus once said of the unfolding of a blos- 

 som : — "I saw God in His glory passing near me, 

 and bowed my head in worship." ~^^^ p.^j^^ 



