Gleanings in old garden literature / by W. Carew Hazlitt.

  • William Carew Hazlitt
Date:
1887
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Credit: Gleanings in old garden literature / by W. Carew Hazlitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when ages grow to civility and elegance, man comes to build stately sooner than to garden finely : as if gardening were the greater perfection.” Modern science has brought our gardens to their present state, and the development of society evolved from the ancient and original idea of plantations for the general benefit, of which we seem to have a sort of foreshadow in the Book of Genesis, the conception of enclosures dedicated to par- ticular service. Our nature, modified by circumstances and interests, gradually out- grew its contentment with the free and unrestricted use of the fruits of the earth, and each man or each tribe claimed and held, personally or in common, the ground adjacent to the dwelling or the settlement. Centuries elapsed before the garden became what we see it; and at the present moment every country is governed in its system of planting, and in its principles of cultivation and husbandry, by' the resources of its soil and the demands of its population. The dawn of the British primeval life was spent amid dark and boggy forests, and
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