Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.
John EvelynOur 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.
John EvelynMulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.
John EvelynA gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.
John EvelynThe Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire habit of their bodies; so the Catarrhs,...Cough, and Consumption, range more in this one City, than in the whole Earth besides.
John Evelyn