HORACE 



THE HISTORY OF THE MODERN TASTE IN GAR- 

 DENING.* 



ARDENING was probably one of the first 

 arts that succeeded to that of building 

 houses, and naturally attended property and in- 

 dividual possession. Culinary and afterwards 

 medicinal herbs were the objects of every head 

 of a family ; it became convenient to have them 

 within reach, without seeking them at random 

 in woods, in meadows, and on mountains, as 

 often as they were wanted. When the earth 

 ceased to furnish spontaneously all these primi- 

 tive luxuries, and culture became requisite, sepa- 

 rate enclosures for rearing herbs grew expedient. 

 Fruits were in the same predicament, and those 

 most in use or that demand attention, must have 



* Printed at Strawberry Hill, 1771. Translated into 

 French by the Duke de Nivernois, and printed at Straw- 

 berry Hill, 1785. 



