of gardening among the Ancients . 309 
It is not improbable, from the above account, 
and from the consideration of Lucullus having 
l'pent much time in Afia, in a fituation, wherein 
he had an opportunity of obferving the mod 
fplendid confhudtions of this kind, that thefe 
gardens might be laid out in the Afiatic ftyle. 
Thevaft maflfesof building, faid to have been 
ereCted, might have borne fome relemblance, in 
the arrangernent and ftyle, to the Babylonian 
gardens; and the epithet of the Roman Xerxes 
might be applicable to the tafte, as well as the 
ftze and expence, of his works. 
The Tufculan Villa of Cicero, though often 
mentioned, is not, as far as I can difcover, any 
where defcribed in his works, fo as to give an 
adequate idea of the ftyle, in which his gardens 
or grounds were difpofed. 
There is but little in Virgil, that I can find, 
relative to this fubjeCl. Pines,* it feems pro¬ 
bable, were a favourite ornament in gardens, 
and flowers, y rofes efpecially, were much ef~ 
teemed, 
* Fraxinus in fylvis pulcherrima, pinus in hortis, 
Populus in fluviis, abies in montibus altis : 
Saepius at fi me, Lycida formofe, revifas, 
Fraxinus in fylvis cedet tibi, pinus inhortis. 
Virgil, Eclog. VII. 1 , 65. &c. 
f Fcrfitan et, pingues hortos quae cura colendi 
Ornaret, canerem, biferique rofaria Paefti: 
Quoque modo potis gaudcrcnt intyba rivis, 
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