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This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.

A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.

Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes, that there are none more fit to bury our dead in than in our Gardens and Groves, where our Beds may be decked with verdant and fragrant flowers, Trees and Perennial Plants, the most natural and instructive Hieroglyphics of our expected Resurrection and Immortality.

I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.