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wielded by every arm, and its results be 

 appreciated by every eye. ' ' When the pre- 

 cision and care which now marks this 

 art are manifested in all the operationsof 

 the agriculturist, then, eventually, the 

 whole world will become a garden. 



As Sir William Temple says: "The 

 use of gardens seems to have been the 

 most ancient and most general of any 

 sorts of possession among mankind and 

 so have preceded those of corn or cattle 

 as yielding the easier, the pleasanter, and 

 most natural food. If we believe the 

 Scriptures we must allow that God Al- 

 mighty esteemed the life of a man in a 

 garden the happiest He could give him, 

 or else He would not have placed Adam 

 in that of Eden ; and that the life of hus- 

 bandry and cities came after the Fall, with 

 guilt and with labor." 



The Egyptians, Medes, Chaldeans, Per- 

 sians, Greeks, and Romans were essen- 

 tially part and parcel of the Oriental stock. 

 Of some of these, as regards their prac- 

 tices in the cultivation of the soil, we 

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