Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the … - John Evelyn

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John Evelyn

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.

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Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

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The 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.

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

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The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits.

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By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties. . . including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.

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