Excerpt from A History of English Gardening, Chronological, Biographical, Literary, and Critical: Tracing the Progress of the Art in This Country From the Invasion of the Romans to the Present Time The author's reasons for fixing upon the reigns of Edward the 111, Elizabeth, and George the I, as eras in the History of our national Gar dening are founded upon an attentive examina tion of our annals, and most of them will be developed in the body of the work Whilst con sidering the literature of Gardening. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.