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beheld them; but bewildered travellers have caught glimpses of 
them at times, through the falling twilight, and given splendid 
accounts of their gorgeous trees and flowers.” 
“The Royal Garden at Stockholm contains one of the best 
collections of plants in Europe; and more pineapples are pro- 
duced in the neighborhood of St. Petersburg (in spite of nine 
months of winter) than in any other capital in Christendom. 
“God Almighty first planted a garden, and indeed it was the 
purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the 
spirits of man; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow 
to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than 
to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. Yes, 
gardens are clearly significant of elegancy. He cannot be a bad 
man who loves either a garden or flowers.” — Lorp Bacon. 
