ioo THE GARDEN OF CYRUS 



language of trees orderly planted. And Ulysses being 

 a boy, was promised by his father forty fig-trees, and 

 fifty rows of vines producing all kinds of grapes. 



That the eastern inhabitants of India made use of 

 such order, even in open plantations, is deducible from 

 Theophrastus ; who, describing the trees whereof they 

 made their garments, plainly delivereth that they were 

 planted kclt' op^ovs, and in such order that at a distance 

 men would mistake them for vineyards. The same 

 seems confirmed in Greece from a singular expression 

 in Aristotle l concerning the order of vines, delivered 

 by a military term representing the orders of soldiers, 

 which also confirmeth the antiquity of this form yet 

 used in vineal plantations. 



That the same was used in Latin plantations is 

 plainly confirmed from the commending pen of Varro 

 Quintilian, and handsome description of Virgil, 



" Indulge ordinibus, nee secius omnis in unguem, 

 Arboritus positis, secto via limite quadret." 



Georg. II. 



1 Polit. 7. 



