THE 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 
February 1st, 1834 . 
PART I. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
HORTICULTURE. 
ARTICLE I.—LORD BACON, ON GARDENS. 
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BY VIOLA. 
“ Each flower of slender stalk, whose head though gay 
“ Carnation, purple, azure, or speckl’d with gold, 
“-and many a walk travers’d 
“ Of stateliest covert, cedar, pine, or palm.” Milton. 
The labours of your second Volume have drawn to a close ; and I 
sincerely congratulate you on the high stand which your admirable 
work has taken among the useful and scientific periodicals of the day. 
It possesses several distinctive qualities, among them may be re¬ 
marked that gentlemanlike tone of writing, and proper spirit, in 
which are carried on the discussions necessarily arising among men 
of scientific research, possessing different views, and different caliber 
of intellect. 
Of all occupations, that of gardening seems, from its sweet and 
primitive simplicity, best calculated to soften the acerbity of human 
nature, and allay “the fever and the fret,” of this “working day” 
world. 
Although I am an enthusiastic lover of trees, shrubs, and flowers, 
I can only wonder and admire ; I can neither cultivate new kinds, 
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