NOTE 



Penllyn, near Philadelphia — whose generosity has 

 enabled me to describe or to refer to their gardens, 

 or whose agricultural knowledge has been placed 

 at my disposal, I make grateful acknowledgment. 

 There is, however, one other matter to commend 

 this book. It will be found at the head of each 

 chapter in those sparkling sentences from the 

 letters of Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford. 

 Played upon by this fountain of wit the least 

 significant notes on gardening, as through re- 

 fracted rays, may perhaps glisten a very little. 



Louisa Yeomans King. 



Orchard House, 

 Alma, Michigan, 

 April, 1921. 



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