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Earth, over the arched Roofs, and even upon the 

 top of the highest Tower, planted them with all 

 sorts of Fruit-Trees, as well as other Plants and 

 Flowers, the most pleasant of that Country, and 

 thereby made at least the most airy Gardens, as 

 well as the most costly, that have been heard of in 

 the World. 



THE GARDENS OF KING SOLOMON 



THE next Gardens we read of, are those of Solomon, 

 planted with all sorts of Fruit-Trees, and watered with 

 Fountains ; and though we have no more particular 

 description of them, yet we may find, they were the 

 places where he passed the times of his Leisure and 

 Delight, where the Houses as well as Grounds, were 

 adorned with all that could be pleasing and elegant, 

 and were the Retreats and Entertainments of those 

 among his Wives that he loved the best ; and it is 

 not impossible that the Paradises mentioned by 

 Strabo, were planted by this great and wisest King. 

 But the Idea of the Garden must be very great, if 

 it answers at all to that of the Gardener, who must 

 have employed a great deal of his Care and of his 

 Study, as well as of his Leisure and Thought in 

 these Entertainments, since he writ of all Plants, 

 from the Cedar to the Shrub. 



THE PHILOSOPHER IN THE GARDEN 



Epicurus passed his Life wholly in his Garden ; there 

 he Studied, there he Exercised, there he taught his 



