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Garden of perate regions. However it were, we have very 



little mention of g ardens in old Greece, or in 

 Rome old Rome, for pleasure or with elegance, nor of 

 much curiousness of care, to introduce the fruits 

 of foreign climates, contenting themselves with 

 those which werenativeoftheirown; and these 

 were the vine, the olive, the fig, the pear, and 

 the apple : Cato, as I remember, mentions no 

 more; and their gardens were then but the 

 necessary parts of their farms, intended parti- 

 cularly for the cheap and easy food of their 

 hinds or slaves, employed in their agriculture, 

 and so were turned chiefly to all the common 

 sorts of plants, herbs, or legumes (as the French 

 call them) proper for common nourishment; 

 and the name of hortus is taken to be from 

 ortus, because it perpetually furnishes some 

 rise or production of something new in the 

 world. 



Lucullus, after the Mithridatic war, first 

 brought cherries from Pontus into Italy, which 

 so generally pleased, and were so easily pro- 

 pagated in all climates, that within the space 

 of about an hundred years, having travelled 

 westward with the Roman conquests, they 

 grew common as far as the Rhine, and passed 



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