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Paradise is a synonym for garden, and the garden is often a paradise in the minds of those whose happiest hours are spent in one. In the case of certain garden writers this is a state that gives rise to ecstatic description. Theirs is a passion we experience with vicarious enthusiasm, an infectious rapture that makes us believe that gardeners are perhaps the happiest of all mortals.