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Jauliitiil  fif  ^flrti^ultuiit 
THURSDAY,  AUGUST  16,  1900. 
The  Poet  Cowper  as  a  Gardener. 
April  of  this  present  year 
people  of  British  and  other  nation¬ 
alities  were  celebrating  the  cen¬ 
tenary  of  the  poet  Cowper,  who 
died  in  the  last  year  of  the 
eighteenth  century.  A  man  he  was 
of  varied  gifts.  One  whom  it  is 
impossible  not  to  admire  and  love,  though 
he  stands  not  on  the  highest  pinnacle 
amongst  our  poets.  He  had  numerous  employ¬ 
ments  besides  writing  verses  and  letters,  one  of 
these  was  gardening,  and  he  seems  to  have  been 
no  mean  amateur,  considering  his  limited  oppor¬ 
tunities  in  the  Georgian  age. 
With  a  frankness  that  is  charming,  he  tells 
the  public  in  verse  and  his  friends  in  prose,  a  good 
deal  about  what  he  grew,  and  the  methods  he 
purs’jed.  Also  he  had  a  keen  eye  for  what  was 
beau  iful  or  curious  in  the  gardens  of  others  when 
his  shyness  allowed  him  to  inspect  these.  No 
doubt  the  employment  had  a  soothing  effect  upon 
Cowper,  and,  to  some  extent,  it  engaged  his 
attention  all  the  year  round  through  a  good  part 
of  his  Olney  life.  Many  of  his  metrical  compo¬ 
sitions  were  produced  in  his  greenhouse,  one  of 
the  olden  sort  without  a  glass  roof,  which  he  lined 
with  mats,  and  used  as  a  summer  parlour,  when 
the  plants  were  placed  outside.  This  greenhouse 
he  built  himself,  and  speaks  of  it  with  slight 
exaggeration  as  an  affair  Lord  Bute’s  gardener 
could  carry  off  on  his  back ;  he  had  also  another, 
which  he  calls  a  summer  house,  the  smoking- 
room  of  some  'previous  tenant.  This  also  was  a 
receptacle  for  plants  at  times,  possibly  in  summer 
as  well  as  in  winter.  “Wholovis  a  garden  loves 
a  greenhouse  too,”  wrote  the  poet  ;  he  would  have 
loved  much  more  many  (though  not  all)  of  our 
modern  conservatories,  but  his  modest  structure 
gave  him  real  enjoyment  and  light  occupation. 
In  1783,  June  8th,  he  write.s  to  his  friend 
Unwin  that  our  severest  winter,  commonly  called 
the  spring  being  over,  the  plants  were  out,  and 
During  FIFTY-TA/VO  YEARS  the  "JOURNAL  OF 
HORTICULTURE”  has  been  written  by  Gardeners  for 
Gardeners,  and  in  its  principles,  its  practice,  and  its 
price  it  still  remains  the  same.  One  alteration  is  per¬ 
haps,  however,  necessary.  Our  modern  methods  of 
production  have  rendered  the  price  old  -  fa.shioned, 
and  hence  in  order  to  meet  the  wishes  of  the 
present  generation  of  Gardeners  the  “  JOURNAL 
OF  HORTICULTURE”  will  hereafter  be  sold  for 
TWOPENCE  instead  of  Threepence. 
