God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of
human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man;
without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiwork; and as men
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. I do hold it in the royal ordering of gardens, there
ought to be gardens for all the months in the year, in which, severally,
things of beauty may be in season.
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