22 Tk H I S T o R Y Chap, i. 



omiffive in this^as they were then :, and indeed 

 it is hard to coUeft out of any of our Englijb 

 Records any thing of Moment concerning 

 Gard'ning. 



Yet I have feen fome Maps of ancient Rome^ 

 which have giv'n fome Marks of Gard'ning, 

 amongft which was that of Martial^ and fome 

 others I do not at prefent remember. 



Agriculture without doubt flourifli'd migh- 

 tily in this Monarchical State, fince (/) l^li- 

 71 j leaves a large Catalogue of Authors, from 

 which he tranfcrib'd his Works (m) Quin- 

 cimnna- ^ ^^ Cwcimatus was by the Republick of Rome 

 tus' co7i/«/ (afterwardseftabli(h*d) chofefrom the Plough- 

 o/Rome. 'j^jj ^^ j^^ ^^^ ^^ ^|-^g Governours and Con- 



fuls of that Democratical State : How great 

 his Valour and Atchievements were, the Hi- 

 ftorians of thofe Times make particular Ob- 

 fervations. 



But when that fick'ning and divided Scheme 



of Government was reduc'd to the entire O- 



Julius And bedience and Subjeftion of Jitlius and Aiiguji- 



c^far^"^^ ?^j CAJar, by the Overthrow of the Pompeian 



Fadiion, the Arts began to flouriih, and no 



doubt but Gard'ning amongft the reft. 



Virgil. VirgiJ, amongft the Poets, has left us the 



greateft Tafte that they had at that time of 



Gard'ning 3 recommending, as to the Defign- 



(/) PUn. lib. I. (m) Ojiintus Cincinnatus, fpes una Im- 

 perii Vopuli Romani, quatuor jugerum colens agrum, a Legatis 

 ad Diftaturam vocacur ^ inveiicus ieu folVam tbdiens, bipalo in- 

 nixiis, ceu cum ararec, operi certe, id quod conlbc aperci inten- 

 tus. JJv, lib. 3. cdf. 26 f 



ing 



