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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
How delightful it would be were someone 
with a beautiful garden of this description to 
leave it to the nation, even as the late Sir 
Thomas Hanbury in his lifetime bought and 
presented a beautiful garden at Wisley to the 
Royal Horticultural Society, for the use of 
the Fellows. 
Some garden far enough from a station to 
discourage the tripper, who thoroughly enjoys 
a well-earned holiday at Kew or at Hampton 
Court, but is not fired with a consuming 
ambition to quench his thirst at the founts of 
knowledge. 
A garden where the beginner with perhaps 
a small garden, much love for it, and very little 
“siller/’ could go and ask questions again and 
again, sure of his welcome, and made to feel 
that the cultivation of his small herbaceous 
border, or his dozen or so of new roses, is 
as interesting a matter, and as deserving of 
careful attention, as if he were the grower of 
some rare orchid. 
I wish that I might live to see this dream 
come true. I have known one or two such 
beautiful gardens, full of rare interest to the 
garden lover, and the result of some forty 
years of love and patience on the part of the 
owner ; and yet, on the death of that o\faner, 
