Our National Gardens 



Londoner should go once a week there, yet I am 

 sure there are many who now know it not, but 

 would find much pleasure in a visit ; and to all 

 my brother-gardeners I should say, go to Kew as 

 often as you can, but do not go in a fault-finding 

 spirit, or come away with the boast that you can 

 grow many plants better than Kew can ; but go 

 to learn, go to enjoy yourself with the sight of 

 many treasures that you can see nowhere else, 

 and you will come away with the boast that 

 England can show a national garden which has 

 no equal anywhere ; a garden not only the richest 

 in plants, but one in which visitors are welcomed 

 and helped, and their comfort looked after in a 

 way which they will look for in vain in any public 

 garden outside Great Britain. 



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