Introduction 1. Lovers of Gardens and Lovers in Gardens Paradise Made (Genesis) John Gerard Homeward Tao Yuan Ming Bright Green and Lush (Romance of the Rose) The Air of Paradise Hafez Purest of Human Pleasures Francis Bacon A Brood of Nightingales Willliam Lawson Innocent Delights Joseph Addison Syringa Ivory Pure William Cowper We Talk Also of a Laburnum Jane Austen The Pride of my Heart Mary Russell Milford How Little One Wants Gertrude Jekyll Enjoy Thyself a Day (''Tale of the Garden of Flowers'', ancient Egypt) A Garden Enclosed ( Song of Solomon ) The Lusty Month of May Thomas Malory A Garden Fair by Music''s Tower Stephen Hawes Make Me a Mandrake John Donne No Nook More Eden-Like Charlotte Brontë The Planet of Love is on High Alfred Tennyson The Cap and Bells William Butler Yeats 2. Grand Designs An Abundance of Brimstone Diodorus Siculus The Blue Fig with Luscious Juice O''erflows Homer All is Calm and Composed Pliny the Younger The Pleasant Whisking Wind Robert Laneham A Princelike Garden Francis Bacon The Shalimar Bagh Constance Villiers-Stuart The Genius of the Place Alexander Pope A Labyrinth of My Own Raising Joseph Addison The Horticultural Xenophobe Tobias Smollett In the Hands of the Improvers Jane Austen The Simplest Way William Morris No Plan of Any Kind William Robinson Tears of Ecstasy Reginald Farrer A Garden of Sweet Scents Gertrude Jekyll 3. Practical Gardening Whatever Had the Most Blooms Bai Juyi A Full Dung Barrow Walafrid Strabo Nosegays and Posies John Gerard Bring Your Orange Trees Boldly Out John Evelyn Vegetable Pride Erasmus Darwin Gross Fog Boeotian William Cowper Snapdragons Blooming Thomas Jefferson A Bachelor of Husbandry Philip Yorke Well Stricken in Years Robert Louis Stevenson They Gardened in Bloomers ( Punch magazine) A Cast-Iron Back with a Hinge in It Charles Dudley Warner Being Entirely Ignorant Elizabeth von Arnim The Unkindest Cut Samuel Reynolds Hole Grubbing Weeds from Garden-paths with Broken Dinner-knives Rudyard Kipling The Actual Tools Gertrude Jekyll The Smoke''s Smell Edward Thomas 4. Solace for Body and Soul The Belly of the Dragon (Japanese gardens) Your Leaves are Always at His Lotus Feet ( Bhagavata Purana ) Invisible Wisdom John Gerard Clad in Tattered Dervish Rags Baqi A Pleasing Savour of Sweet Instructions John Parkinson Killing and Quickening George Herbert Fresh and Spruce Henry King A Green Thought in a Green Shade Andrew Marvell Slow but Sure John Bunyan Human Grandeur is Very Dangerous Voltaire Prostate Peas Henry Jones Good Taste and Not a Gaudy Pride John Clare Paying Back the Garden Edward Bulwer-Lytton Roses and Lovers Algernon Charles Swinburne Manifest Autobiography Alfred Austin Persevere! Helena Rutherford Eli It Isn''t Quite a Dead Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett A Nation of Gardeners Avray Tipping Even God Would Have to Have a Nose D. H. Lawrence Egoistic Reverie William Cowper; Edmund Gosse; Forbes Sieveking Envoi: Ferned Grot T. E.
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