This house stood till lately on a very pretty spot; but the demon of building came into the neighbourhood, choked up the garden, and destroyed the secluded beauty of Hogarth's cottage.

The garden, well stored with walnut, mulberry, and apple trees, contained a small study, with a head-stone, placed over a favourite bullfinch, on which the artist had etched the bird's head and written an epitaph.

The Council have, notwithstanding the nature of the soil, endeavoured to give to the garden all the attractions which good cultivation and an abundance of flowers can afford: and they have to return their thanks for the very liberal supplies for this purpose which they have occasionally received from the Horticultural Society.

The resort to the garden has far surpassed the most sanguine expectations of the Council; 112,226 persons have visited it during the last year.

The celebrated Dry-well, which was made to observe the earth's annual parallax, and for seeing the stars in the day-time, is situated near the south-east corner of the garden, behind the Observatory, but has been arched over, the great improvements in telescopes having long rendered it unnecesary.

and an attempt to naturalize the same at the Cambridge Botanical Garden, page 217, of the present volume.

The common field referred to, is the well-known piece of garden ground lying between Craven Hill and the Uxbridge road, called also Bayswater Field.

"London, printed by T. Newcomb, for Thomas Heath and are to be sold at his Shop in Russel-street, near the Piazza of Covent Garden, 1655.

FRUITS from the GARDEN and the FIELD.

And Isabel walks and walks and walksin the garden, in her rooms.

It began in ye Garden of Eden and is as old as ye old devil himself.

I remember once his being at Banchory Lodge, and thus apologising to my aunt for going out of the room:"I beg your pardon, Mrs. Forbes, for leaving you, but I maun just gae doun to the garden and say my bit wordies"these "bit wordies" being in fact the portion of the Breviary which he was bound to recite.

"We will go in the garden way," said Dot.

The garden door was closed behind them.

Butmy dearmy dear!" CHAPTER III THE FIRST ORDEAL All the birds in the Manor garden were singing on that afternoon in May.

With the quiet dignity peculiar to her, she passed up the garden path, leaving the thrush still singing, singing, singing, behind her.

"Lady Carfax," he said abruptly, "I'm told you have a herb garden, and I'm just mad on herbs.

The herb garden was some distance from the house.

They had entered the herb garden and were passing slowly down the central path.

Across the quiet garden came the song of a nightingale in one of the shrubberies, now soft and far like the notes of a fairy flute, now close at hand and filling the whole world with music.

She saw again the quiet garden lying sleeping before her in the moonlight, and felt as if God must be very far away.

In the garden behind her, down among the lilac trees, a bird had begun to sing, eagerly, voluptuously, thrillingly, with a rapture as of the full spring-tide of life.

They crossed the flag-decked garden and entered by the conservatory door.

And thus Anne Carfax, who had lived in almost unbroken seclusion since her husband's death, now sat with Mrs. Errol's hand clasped in hers, and listened, as one listens in a nightmare, to the wailing of the wind about the garden and house, and the beat, beat, beat of her heart when the wind was still.

It seemed as if the door before which she had knelt so long in impotence were opening to her at last, as if one more opportunity were to be given her even yet after long and bitter failure of turning her corner of the desert into a garden of flowers and singing birds.