"A man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to
civility and elegancy, men come to build
stately sooner than to garden finely; as if
gardening were the greater perfection

"

-BACON

NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1925

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CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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