Temple, William; Sieveking, Albert Forbes: Upon the gardens of Epicurus: with other XVIIth century garden essays (London: Chatto and Windus, 1908)

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THE GARDEN OF CYRUS

language of trees orderly planted. And Ulysses being
a boy, was promised by his father forty fig-trees, and
fifty rows of vines producing all kinds of grapes.
That the eastern inhabitants of India made use of
such order, even in open plantations, is deducible from
Theophrastus ; who, describing the trees whereof they
made their garments, plainly delivereth that they were
planted kolt’ op-govs, and in such order that at a distance
men would mistake them for vineyards. The same
seems confirmed in Greece from a singular expression
in Aristotle1 concerning the order of vines, delivered
by a military term representing the orders of soldiers,
which also confirmeth the antiquity of this form yet
used in vineal plantations.
That the same was used in Latin plantations is
plainly confirmed from the commending pen of Varro
Quintilian, and handsome description of Virgil,
“ Indulge ordinibus, nec secius omnis in unguem,
Arboritus positis, secto via limite quadret.”
Georg. II.

1 Polit. 7.