The use of Gardens ... as it has been the inclination 

 of Kings and the choice of Philosophers, so it has been the 

 common favourite of public and private men ; a pleasure of 

 the greatest and the care of the meanest; and indeed an 

 employment and a possession for which no man is too high 

 nor Too low. Sir William Temple. 



In books and Gardens thou hast plac'd aright 

 Thy noble, innocent delight. 



i never had any other desire so strong and so like to 

 covetousness, as that one which i have had always, that i 

 might be master at last of a small house and large garden. 

 Abraham Cowley. 



In Garden Delights it is not easy to hold a Mediocrity ; 

 that insinuating pleasure is seldom without some extremity. 

 Sir Thomas Browne. 



When we have run our passions' heat, 

 Love hither makes his best retreat. 

 The gods, who mortal beauty chase, 

 Still in a tree did end their race. 



Andrew Marvei.l. 



Our drift is a noble, princely and universal Elysium 

 capable of all the amenities there can naturally be intro- 

 duced into Gardens of pleasure, yet so as to become useful 



and significant to the least pretences and faculties. 



John Evelyn. 



