CHAPTER XIII 
NINETEENTH CENTURY 
“ Hence through the garden I was drawn, 
A realm of pleasance, many a mound, 
And many a shadow-chequered lawn, 
Full of the city’s stilly sound ; 
And deep myrrh thickets blowing round 
The stately cedar, tamarisks. 
Thick rosaries of scented thorn, 
Tall orient shrubs and obelisks, 
Graven with emblems of the time.” 
Lord Tennyson. 
HE progress of gardening during the last hundred years 
-1 has been so great and so rapid that it would be a well- 
nigh endless task to take even a very cursory review of it 
in all its branches. The immense advance in botany and 
classification, the improved methods of cultivation, the vast 
hot-houses and stoves, and the countless treasures from 
tropical climes with which to stock them, the numberless plants 
collected from all parts of the world to beautify the flower- 
garden, and the endless florists' varieties, improved and added 
to year by year—all these combined to enhance the charm of 
the nineteenth-century garden. Though the gardens of our 
forefathers may be greatly praised, and the study of them 
proves how much there was to admire or imitate in them, it is 
difficult to imagine an English garden deprived of the count¬ 
less flowers which have been added to them of late years. Many 
flowers have become so familiar that it is hard to picture a 
garden without them, yet numbers of plants to be seen almost 
everywhere in 1900 had not been brought to our shores one 
hundred years before. To produce such changes many men 
have been at work, in every department, each contributing 
