. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. 63^. Custom authorizes a Preface, the object of which is, I suppose, that the wi'iter may apologize for his own short-comings, if he has discovered them, rectify his omissions, and entice the reader, by gentle entreaties, to dip into his pages ; or, at least, to take his leave in a manner calcu- lated to keep his memory green in their recollections. In the present work the wi'iter is conscious of many deficiencies : the subject is a very large one, and a book of much large
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. 63^. Custom authorizes a Preface, the object of which is, I suppose, that the wi'iter may apologize for his own short-comings, if he has discovered them, rectify his omissions, and entice the reader, by gentle entreaties, to dip into his pages ; or, at least, to take his leave in a manner calcu- lated to keep his memory green in their recollections. In the present work the wi'iter is conscious of many deficiencies : the subject is a very large one, and a book of much larger dimensions could hardly pretend to be more than a Book of Hints on the Management of the Garden; but it is the man who can appropriate hints, improve upon, and make them his O'vvn, who is the true gardener. This is sti'ikingly " put" in an anecdote related by Sir E. L. Bulwer Lytton, in the delightful series of Essays on "Life, Literature, and Manners," now publishing in Black- vjoodbs Magazine. *' A. certain nobleman, very proud of the extent and beauty of his plea- sure-grounds, chancing one day to call on a small squire whose garden might cover an acre, was greatly struck with the brilliant colours of his neighbour's flowers. ' Ay, my Lord, the flowers are well enough,' said the squire ; ' but permit me to show yow. my grapes.' Conducted into an old- fashioned little greenhouse, which served as a viner}', my lord gazed with mortification on grapes twice as fine as his own. 'My dear friend,' said my lord, 'you have a jewel of a gardener ; let me see him.' The gardener was called—a simple-looking young man, imder thirty. ' Accept my compliments on your flower-beds and your grapes/ said my lord, 'and tell me, if you can, why your flowers are so much brighter than mine, and your grapes so much finer. You must have studied your profession very profoundly.'—' Please your lordship,' said the man, 'Iben'tno scholar; but as to the flowers and the grapes, the
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