joo Dr. Falconer on the Style and Tajle 
kind, were favourite ornaments of the Jewifh 
gardens. 
The cedar is often mentioned, as a tree highly 
ornamental •, and both that and the fir are fpo- 
ken of in the book of the prophet Ezekiel, * as 
being frequent in magnificent gardens. Dr. 
RuiTel f likewife mentions, that, at prelent, at 
Aleppo a cyprefs tree is generally planted in 
the little gardens, in the inner courts of the 
houfes, as well as in their more extenfive ones. 
The next defcription of a garden, in order of 
time, appears to be that of Alcinous by Homer, 
This has been, generally, efteemed to be a fruit 
garden for ule merely, without any view to orna¬ 
ment. But, I do not take this to be altogether 
its charadter, though it feems to be fo in a good 
meafure. Something of parterre, J planted with 
flowers, 
* The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him, 
the fir trees were not like his boughs. Ezekiel, xxxi. 
f RuiTel’s Aleppo, p. 5. 
X E os noa’/u.YiTca •srfaciat 1rcigx maTov opp^ov 
ITavroi ct Tnlpvacrm emirutov ya.muaa.\. 
Homeri Iliad. L. VII. 
Athenasus, and the Scholiaft on Homer, underftand pot 
herbs only to be meant in this place ; but the words xoa^nrcu 
and yaroacrxi fee ms too ornament.il to be fo underftood, 
and to be rather applicable to flowers. At any rate, they 
were planned in parterre-like divifion, as the word Trpas-io.; 
fignifies. 
