Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned. — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself. — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it. — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots. — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall. — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of boates &… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at. — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
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… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age. — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
