130 Gleanings from the 



bright fruit, and fweet figs, and olives in their 

 bloom. The fruit of thefe trees never perifheth, 

 winter or fummer, enduring all the year through. 

 Evermore the weft wind blowing brings fome 

 fruits to birth and ripens others. Pear upon pear 

 waxes old, and apple on apple yea, and clufter 

 ripens upon clufter of the grape, and fig upon fig. 

 There, too, hath he a fruitful vineyard planted, 

 whereof the one part is being dried by the heat, a 

 funny fpot on level ground, while other grapes 

 men are gathering, and yet others they are tread- 

 ing in the wine-prefs. In the foremoft row are 

 unripe grapes that caft the bloflbm, and others 

 there be that are growing black to vintageing. 

 There, too, fkirting the furtheft line, are all manner 

 of garden-beds, planted trimly, that are frefh con- 

 tinually ; and therein are two fountains of water, 

 whereof one fcatters his ftreams all about the 

 garden, and the other runs over againft it, beneath 

 the threlhold of the courtyard, and ifTues by the 

 lofty houfe, and thence did the townsfolk draw 



water." 



Penelope had a " garden of trees " (" Odyfley," 

 iv. 737). Onions, as a relifh for wine, and 

 poppies were alfo grown in the Homeric gardens 

 (" Iliad," xi. 629 and viii. 306). But early Greek 

 gardens, as a rule, held little but vines and trees, 

 and were formal in arrangement (" Iliad," v. 90). 

 The Tf/ievoc, or facred enclofure, often round a 

 temple, furnifhed a model. It was planted with 

 fhrubs, vines, and herbs, and was fometimes termed 

 whence comes our " orchard " (" Iliad," 



