the Cardinal's garden, and he too seemed to THE GARDEN 



find it a favorite place, for, as the author of 



"English Pleasure Gardens" tells it, "in this 



garden young Henry VIII carried on his first 



flirtations with Anne Boleyn, and here, when 



overtaken by infirmities, he used to hobble 



about in his premature old age." 



The poet has given us a glimpse of the "gar- 

 den glorious" of that earlier time. It tells 

 us the garden ideal of the period. 



That which embodies the garden ideal of a 

 people is always the "garden glorious" of that 

 people, and the garden ideal of any time ex- 

 presses the traits of the domestic and social 

 life of the time. At the same time, the form 

 that the ideal assumes is often affected by 

 motives drawn from the gardens of other times 

 and other peoples, foreign and unsuited to the 

 conditions under which the imitation is at- 

 tempted. 



For example, the Italian gardens may be 

 imitated in America, but the real Italian villa 

 garden is possible only in Italy. It is the crea- 

 tion of the Italian temperament, and requires 

 the glowing sunshine and the spacious atmos- 

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