The Shah's English Gardener
                        Elizabeth Gaskell
                    
                    
                                                                            Unabridged
                                                                    
                            
                                                                    28 minutes
                                                                                            
                            
                            
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                            From the publisher
The facts of the following narration were communicated to me by Mr. Burton, the head gardener at Teddesley Park, in Staffordshire. I had previously been told that he had been for a year or two in the service of the Shah of Persia; and this induced me to question him concerning the motives which took him so far from England, and the kind of life which he led at Teheran. I was so much interested in the details he gave me, that I made notes at the time, which have enabled me to draw up the following account