of gardening among the Ancients. 303 
hands, was laid out in straight lines,* and, at 
right angles, which was, no doubt, efteemed 
the eftablifhed cuftom, of placing the trees in 
gardens. 
It does not, as far as I can find, appear clearly, 
that flowers made a part of the ornaments of 
thefe gardens; but, we may conjedlure, they 
did, from the odours mentioned to be exhaled 
from the plants growing there, f which were 
underftood to conftitute no fmall part of the 
pleafure they afforded. 
It feems probable, from feveral circumftances, 
that the eaftern gardens were adjoining to the 
houfe or palace, to which they belonged. Thus, 
King Ahafuerus goes immediately, from the 
banquet of wine, to walk in the garden of the 
palace. J The garden of Cyrus, at Sardis, 
mentioned by Xenophon, || was probably con¬ 
tiguous to the palace, as was that of Attalus, 
* Ettei oe eSxvyx^iv ccvtov o Avcrxvfyoc; a; y.xhx p-s* rx S'ltfya. zir, t 
•i’ ccov (St rx 7re(pvTiV(A.tva., o§8o4 cSe ot crh%oi ruv ci'ivS'guii, ivyunx 
ii iroura. y.a.'Ku$ eei'. Xenoph. CEconom. 
■f Oayxi oe 7roAA«i y.xi 'r,Snxi C'VVKxf’oy.xoTony xvrotf Trentru- 
rova 4 Ibidem Xenoph. 
Kxi rxvrx ytr* •nnaruv oa-y.uv y.xt Qixy.xrut ctceoe^ee. Ibidem 
Xenoph. 
X Efther, Chap. vii. ver. 7. || CEconom. 
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