The trees of his age, which may yet be standing, are verging fast toward their decay and dissolution: but his name is fresh in the land, and his reputation, like the trees of an Indian Paradise, exists and will continue to exist in full strength and beauty, uninjured by the course of time.
Thrones fall and Dynasties are changed: Empires decay and sink Beneath their own unwieldy weight; Dominion passeth like a cloud away.
The imperishable mind Survives all meaner things.
No change of fashion, no alteration of taste, no revolutions of science have impaired or can impair his celebrity.' Another of the celebrated _Quarterly Review_ articles on Forestry is that _On Planting Waste Lands_ (October, 1827); and even though it was Robert Monteath's _Foresters Guide and Profitable Planter_ which furnished the peg for a discourse on this occasion, still the spirit breathing throughout the exhortion was the revivification of Evelyn's influence.

And the same must also be said about the article on _Loudon's 'Trees and Shrubs'_ (_Quarterly Review_; October, 1838), which opens with a eulogy of our great English enthusiast of Arboriculture.

'The good and peaceful John Evelyn was a great benefactor to England.

He was a country gentleman of independent fortune; he held an office under Government; and was personally familiar with Charles II.

and James II; yet, in spite of the influence which he then possessed, his example effected little for his favourite object till the publication of the _Sylva_.