Foreword 



OD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And 

 indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. It 

 is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; 

 without which, buildings and palaces are but 

 gross handiworks : and a man shall ever see, that when ages 

 grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, 

 sooner than to garden finely: as if gardening were the 

 greater perfection. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of 

 gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in 

 the year: in which, severally, things of beauty 

 may be then in season." — Lord Bacon 



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TO WSON NURSERIES, Inc. 



where a warm welcome awaits you^ 

 attd glorious gardens are planned. 



