THE GARDEN. 



PLINY THE BLDBR. 

 THE PLEASURES OF THE GARDEN. 



IT now remains for us to return to the cultiva- 

 tion of the garden, a subject recommended 

 by its own intrinsic merits to our notice : for we 

 find that in remote antiquity, even, there was 

 nothing looked upon with a greater degree of 

 admiration than the gardens of the Hesperi- 

 des, those of the Kings Adonis and Alcinous, 

 and the Hanging Gardens, whether they were 

 the work of Semiramis, or whether of Cyrus, 

 King of Assyria, a subject of which we shall 

 have to speak in another work. The kings of 

 Rome cultivated their gardens with their own 



