94 THE MATRIMONIAL GARDEN. 



And first, let me caution adventurers in this garden 

 not to dream of permanent happiness ; if you should 

 so dream, experience will soon make you wiser, as 

 such happiness never existed but in visionary heads. 

 If you are desirous that this garden should yield you 

 all the bliss of which it is capable, you must take with 

 you that excellent flower called GOOD HUMOUR, 

 which, of all the flowers of nature, is the most delicious 

 and delicate ; do not drop it or lose it, as many do 

 soon after they enter the garden — it is a treasure that 

 nothing can supply the loss of. When you get to the 

 end of the first walk, wfiich contains about thirty steps, 

 commonly called "the Honey Moon Path, 55 you will 

 find the garden open into a vast variety of views, and 

 it is necessary to caution you to avoid many produc- 

 tions in them which are noxious, nauseous, and even 

 fatal in their nature and tendency, especially to the 

 ignorant and unwary. There is a low, small plant, 

 which may be seen in almost every path, called IN- 

 DIFFERENCE.— This, though not perceived in the 

 entrance, you will always know where it grows, by a 

 certain coldness in the air which surrounds it. Con- 

 trary to the nature of plants in general, this grows by 

 cold and dies by warmth ; whenever you perceive this 

 change in the air, avoid the place as soon as you can. 

 In the same path is often found that baneful flower 

 called JEALOUSY, which I advise you never to look, 

 at, for it has the strange quality of smiting the eye 

 that beholds it, with a pain that is seldom or never got; 

 rid of. Jealousy is a deadly flower ; it is the aconite 

 of the garden, and has marred the happiness of thou- 

 sands. 



