Visited Country Over at www.japanese-home-gardens.com

Since William Kessen's delegation visited country over the country over twenty years ago, naturally much has changed. Although, as we stated above, many different childhoods must be currently extant in contemporary Britain alone, as China is a country with a different ideological perspective from ...at of the UK, it is thought provoking to explore the similarities and differences between the two, in order to recognise and reflect upon some of the influences which only become 'visible' in one's own society by investigating one which is very different.

It is with great satisfaction that I express all the pleasure that your daguerreotype portraits have given me. I certify that these pictures, in execution, are among the most perfect I have ever seen. I am very flattered to see my invention thus propagated by such artists in a foreign country; it brings me much honor.14 In 1848 Charles R. Meade visited country over Daguerre and made seven portraits of the inventor.

England's soaring old cathedrals, rivaling, church for church, those of medieval France, are in themselves a valid reason for going overseas, as are also her formally gardened country houses, these being the huge, palatial "homes" of another era, filled with marble and works of art. About 160 of them may be visited country over by the public and there are nearly as many aristocratic gardens that are worthy of special note for their horticultural or historical interest.