. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. d glass, however,not being such specialities of the Gardeners Chronicleas gardeners and gardening, a transcript of an in-scription at the east end of the church may heresuffice. It is in memory of a Mr. John Gardener, ofSansaw—a former master of Sansaw, a planter oftrees, and in all respects an excellent inscription runs—• Gratia sancta Dei tibi fulsit, care Johannes,Ex re nomen habes, hoc tua vita probatHorti cuUor eras ; tibi cura solo, poloquePlantas egregias addere summa I
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. d glass, however,not being such specialities of the Gardeners Chronicleas gardeners and gardening, a transcript of an in-scription at the east end of the church may heresuffice. It is in memory of a Mr. John Gardener, ofSansaw—a former master of Sansaw, a planter oftrees, and in all respects an excellent inscription runs—• Gratia sancta Dei tibi fulsit, care Johannes,Ex re nomen habes, hoc tua vita probatHorti cuUor eras ; tibi cura solo, poloquePlantas egregias addere summa It does not rhyme—the author was perhaps not quiteequal to it; but if a rhyming translation may be ven-tured upon, the following may answer :—• Dear John, a gift from God has shone on you ;Your name, and useful life together, show garden well you tended, choice plants earth and heavens glory.—Now all know it. William Phillips, a famous fungus authority, who Iat that time, said tha archaaologist, was most fortu-nately in the room. W. G. Smith. {Tt? he continued.). Fig. 47.—birthplace of charles darwin, shrewseurv.(from the castle.) I cannot answer for the last four words, but if anyreader of the Gardeners^ Chronicle can produce some-thing more satisfactory, let him send it on to 41,Wellington Street for printing. The abbey of SS. Peter and Paul was next visited,built partly in_the eleventh century ; here a handsomestone pulpit, belonging to the former refectory, standsdishonoured and overgrown with weeds in a railwaycoal-yard. An inscription in the building records acurious gift of coats in the following words:— Methu-salem Jones, Esq., left ten Coats, viz., five for Menand five for Women, to be given to ten Paupers of thisParish every fifth Day of November for ever. At theDissolution a part of the abbey was pulled down andthe structure known as Whitehall (because it is alto-gether brown) was built out of the ruins. The oldabbey stonework is chise
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