If I were to choose a motto over the gate of a 

 garden, I should choose the remark which Socrates 

 made as he saw the luxuries in the market: "How 

 much there is in the world that I do not want!" * 



L. H. Bailey 



We have no reason to think that for many cen- 

 turies the term garden implied more than a kitchen- 

 garden or orchard. When a Frenchman reads of 

 the Garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he con- 

 cludes it was something approaching to that of Ver- 

 sailles, with dipt hedges, berceaus and trelliswork. 

 If his devotion humbles him so far as to allow that, 

 considering who designed it, there might be a laby- 

 rinth full of .flisop's fables, yet he does not conceive 

 that four of the largest rivers in the world were half 

 so magnificent as a hundred fountains full of statues 

 by Girardon. It is thus that the word garden has at 

 all times passed for whatever was understood by that 

 term in different countries. But that it meant no 

 more than a kitchen-garden or orchard for several 

 centuries, is evident from those few descriptions 

 that are preserved of the most famous gardens of 

 antiquity. Horace Walpole. 



Gardening is practised for food's sake in a kitchen 

 and orchard, or for pleasure's sake in a green grass- 

 plot and an arbour. Johjj Amos CtmnitUf 



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God Almightie first planted a Garden * * * and 

 indeed it is the Purest of Humane Pleasures, it is 

 the Greatest Refreshment to the Spirits of Man. 



Francis Bacon {Lord Verulam}. 



It has always seemed to me that the punishment 

 of the first gardener and his wife was the bitterest 

 of all. To have lived always in a garden "where 

 grew every tree pleasant to the sight and good fpr 



