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expression, excellence of nature, sweetness of conver- 

 sation, temperance of life, and constancy of death, 

 made him so beloved by his friends, admired by his 

 scholars, and honoured by the Athenians, passed his 

 time wholly in his garden ; there he studied, there he 

 exercised, there he taught his philosophy ; and indeed 

 no other sort of abode seems to contribute so much 

 to both the tranquillity of mind, and indolence of 

 body, which he made his chief ends. The sweetness 

 of air, the pleasantness of smells, the verdure of 

 plants, the cleanness and lightness of food, the exer- 

 cises of working or walking ; but above all, the ex- 

 emption from cares and solitude, seem equally to 

 favour and improve both contemplation and health, 

 the enjoyment of sense and imagination, and thereby 

 the quiet and ease both of the body and mind." 

 When the industrious Switzer says :— " 'Tis in the 

 quiet enjoyment of rural delights, the refreshing and 

 odoriferous breezes of garden air, that the deluge of 

 vapours, and those terrors of hypochondraism, which 

 crowd and oppress the head are dispelled." When 

 the industrious and philosophic Bradley observes, 

 that " though the trouble of the mind wears and de- 

 stroys the constitution even of the most healthful 

 body, all kinds of gardens contribute to health." 

 When Pope,* who loved to breathe the sweet and fra- 

 grant air of gardens, in one of his letters says, " I am 

 in my garden, amused and easy; this is a scene where 



* Mr. Pope's delight in gardens, is visible even in the condensed 

 allusion he makes to them, in a letter to Mr. Digby ; " I have been 

 above a month strolling about in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, 



