Lectures on Roman husbandry, delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil; . AAA A A AAAAAAAAA A A AA ; •?? ? ? -lis jXg ig 2g —C =£ JP 3p MI>MM»MUM»l»t A #> PLAN OF AN EGYPTIAN GARDEN I ] ROMAN HUSBANDRY. 221 But of grounds laid out with a view of display-ing the beauties
Lectures on Roman husbandry, delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil; . AAA A A AAAAAAAAA A A AA ; •?? ? ? -lis jXg ig 2g —C =£ JP 3p MI>MM»MUM»l»t A #> PLAN OF AN EGYPTIAN GARDEN I ] ROMAN HUSBANDRY. 221 But of grounds laid out with a view of display-ing the beauties of Nature, we have no accountin the writings of antiquity; unless the parks, orParadisi, of the Persian monarchs may be re-garded as answering that purpose. Amongst the bas-reliefs lately brought fromNineveh, and now deposited in the British Mu-seum, is one representing an Assyrian describes a pleasure-ground of considerablesize, as an aqueduct or river flows through theenclosure, with cross channels leading from it,intended no doubt for irrigation. The aqueductcrosses a road, which leads up to a temple placedon the height above; and trees of various kinds,but apparently not palms, are arranged in ave-nues through the Garden. Of an Egyptian garden too we have represent-ations in the works of Rossellini and in plate 39 of the 2nd volume of
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