The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-17

In the fifth century Jerome, doctor
 and Christian scholar, praises the art
 of gardening; and far-away writer of
 the 11th, the Chinese scribe, Chou
 tun-i tells of the value in a compara-
 tive sense of the chrysanthemum, the
 penoy and the water-lily, as a symbolic
 feature of gardening in his cline.
 Petrarch in the 14th century de-
 scribes his two gardens-the one of
 Apollo, for the pleasure-lovers of social
 exchange, music and wit; and the other,
 dedicated to Bacchus, where serious
 study and quiet claimed him, Boecacio,
 in the same century, discusses color
 schemes for the ideal garden, and ad
 vises variety in selection, holding the
 same philosophy as his own which AL
 fred Austin explains in this wise to-
 day: "Exclusiveness in garden is a ] mistake as great as it is in society,"" Sir Thomas More in pastoral simplicity, 1 Montaigne in essay writing, and Fran
 cis Bacon in happy vein, all toast the garden and the makers of gardens. Milton as one who thought and prov ed the verlty of his theory, "He also serves who only stands and waits, and Alexander Pope in his letters to Swift arraign England for the lack of Homeric simplicity in her garden schemes, and yet the latter made his fiye-acre lot at Twickenham seem 25, so great variety had he crowded within it's space. The Hampton Court gardens of Henry VIII and those of to-day are not materially different only mellowed by time. Kew is proud of it's fidelity to the past and "Capability" Brown, the father of a Thames when the waters at Blenheim are gazed upon. Byron cry ing out against the vanquished English woodland planes Milton and Pope, while Kent would give in place the hon. or of the survival of gardens to such artists of wood and poem. Andre Le Notre shaping the lawn, terraces and hedgerows of Versailles, Fontainebleau and St. Cloud, was paving the way to the beauties of Bois de Boulogne and a Champs Elysees Saint Simon wrote his epitaph, and it was written with royal taste. The honored of grand monarch, wearing the decorations of many lands, he died to leave as a living issue his ideals to shape the Dutch and | German mode of design in gardens
 Elizabeth in her German Garden" is i the history of an outdoor appreciation | true to the land where the garden is the home most lived in. Such scenes as Schiller courting his fair sweetheart in | the garden of Goethe is commonplace | poem in the sense that the details of 1 this walled retreat are repeated thousand times by Rhine and Elder and l Danube.
 Our own land offers us much to praise in garden lore. From those days when the early settlers planted hills of corn to hide the mounds of earth above their dead from as harp Indian eye, to our own, where some wall-in the rich ness of their husbandry to conceal it from passing public eye, the evolution of gardening has been as great as in any other line of progress. Yellow stone park side by side with Central park; the wild beauty of a White noun tain land as compared to your beauti- full Common and public garden in fair Boston are the possibilities and prob abilities in our American Ideals of citlti vation.
 "The garden of home proves the civ lization and morality of its inmates" says one thinker, and Charles Dudley Warner remarks in much those words: The man who plants a good garden is l public benefactor." {