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. — 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
