A MUSEUM GARDEN.
Perhaps the most various collection of flowering shrubs ever gathered into an English garden is being this week dispersed. This author and begetter had such whole- hearted pleasure in them that just before the end he said that his one sadness was the thought of their dispersal. The part of the garden where the bulk of the treasures were found was perhaps to the general eye more precious than beautiful, more like a museum than what used to be called a pleasure garden ; but it was a wonder of the world and incidentally a continuous tribute to the English climate. There in the Home Counties flourished bushes from all parts of the world, as if to the manner born : the catalogue itself is an epitome of botanical geography. Gardeners will lose a place of pilgrimage that has no successor : even Kew in certain regards is not Aldenham.
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