Winter Garden.-To these considerations may be added, that the kitchen garden, even without hot-houses, is a different climate. There are many days in winter when a warm, dry, but secluded walk, under the shelter of a south wall, would be preferred to the most beautiful but exposed landscape; and in the spring, when "Reviving Nature seems again to breathe, As loosen'd from the cold embrace of death," on the south border of a walled garden some early flowers and vegetables may cheer the sight, although every plant is elsewhere pinched with the north-east winds peculiar to our climate in the months of March and April, when "Winter, still ling'ring on the verge of spring, Retires reluctant, and, from time to time, Looks back, while at his keen and chilling breath Fair Flora sickens." STILLINGFLEET.
