THE CHRONICLES OF A GARDEN: ITS PETS AND ITS PLEASURES. BY THE LATE MISS HENRIETTA WILSON, AUTHOR OF " LITTLE THINGS," ETC. WITH A BRIEF MEMOIR BY JAMES HAMILTON, D.D., F.L.S. LONDON: JAMES NISBET & CO., 21 BERNERS STREET. M.DCCC. LXIII. I love my Garden! dearly love That little spot of ground! In all the country round." MRS SOUTHEY. "God Almighty first planted a garden: it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man." LORD BACON. Dulan 27498 MEMOIR OF MISS HENRIETTA WILSON. THE good and gifted writer of the following pages was the daughter of Andrew Wilson, Esq., Main House. In early life she lost her mother, and for some years found a home with her grandmother in Queen Street, Edinburgh, under the same roof with her father's celebrated brother, Professor John Wilson. But there was another uncle, at whose pleasant abode in the then secluded suburb of Morningside she was a frequent visitor, and in whose society from the first she greatly delighted. His garden was so fragrant and so bright with blossom, there were about the place so many tame and happy creatures, and his own ways were so gentle and so loving, that it was no wonder Woodville became to her a little paradise, and its kind owner dear beyond |