CHAPTER I 



On the Gardens of Antiquity Gardens of Paradise Pensile, or 

 hanging, of Babylon, ascribed to Semiramis Those of Nebu- 

 chodonosor Namc(Paradise),Persian origin of Cyrus, the elder, 

 so improved the gardens of Babylon, that he -was thought the 

 author of them Cyrus, the younger, brother of Artaxerxes, a 

 manual planter of gardens Xenophon's description of his planta- 

 tion at Sardis Explanation of the rhomboidal or lozenge formation 

 Compared to St. Andrew's Cross And the Egyptian crux 

 ansata Dr. Young's remark on this last The Tenupha of the 

 J eivish rabbins The quincunx much used by the ancients ; little 

 discoursed of by the moderns Considerable, for its several commo- 

 dities, mysteries, parallelisms , and resemblances, both in nature 

 and art Used in the Gardens of Babylon and Alcinous ; the 

 plantations of Diomecfs father, and Ulysses ; in those described by 

 Theophrastus and Aristotle and in later plantations Probably by 

 Noah, and if so, why not before the food? In Abraham's grove 

 at Beersheba ; in the garden of Solomon In paradise the tree of 

 knowledge would supply a centre and rule of decussation. 



That Vulcan gave arrows unto Apollo and Diana 

 the fourth day after their nativities, according to 

 Gentile theology, may pass for no blind apprehension 

 of the creation of the sun and moon, in the work of 

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