“E. V. B.”
“God Almighty first planted a garden;
And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.”
BACON.
NINTH EDITION.
Dedication
TO
RICHARD CAVENDISH BOYLE.
WHOSE LOVE FOR NATURE AND FOR ART,
YEARS HAD NOT CHILLED
NOR TROUBLE CHANGED,
THESE RECORDS OF OUR GARDEN
WERE INSCRIBED BY
E. V. B.,
IN 1884.