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Introduction

and Water-Mints" in the Master's Hand, though we only take note of the lilies and roses as we tread life's garden.

There were three parts in this wonderful garden, a Green, a main garden, and a a wilderness, and I venture to think, although we hold with formal gardenings that one's thoughts linger longest in the tangle of sweet briar, honeysuckle "and the Ground set with Violets." Coloured glass for the "Sunne to Play upon" is no joy in these days.

It is well that Bacon assured us that a garden should have peace. It must have more, it must have Mystery, and this is an element missing in these thirty acres. Would