A Gloucestershire wild garden with some extraneous matter / by the Curator [Henry Cook].

  • Cook, Henry (c. 1831-1927)
Date:
1903
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Credit: A Gloucestershire wild garden with some extraneous matter / by the Curator [Henry Cook]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    PREFACE MANY years ago in India (ah, how many!) I used to picture to myself the home in England I hoped to form at some distant date, and visions of a house ensconced in woody depths, with gardens here and there in unexpected places, with lawns for tennis and croquet, with meadows for cream-yielding cattle, with water for ornament and use, and with a view over England’s charming scenery, which under the circumstances of my visions loomed even more beautiful than the reality, if that be possible. And years after, though still far distant from the present, I met with a charming book on the wild garden, and determined, come what would, if any garden should be possible at all it should be a wild garden. In process of time came the day when my period [v]