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Of Gardens is an essay by Francis Bacon. The essay says a garden is the purest of human pleasures and the greatest refreshment of the spirits of man, without which buildings or palaces are but gross handy-works. The essay says that when ages grow to civility or elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.
The essay holds that, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year. The essay's writer does not like images cut out in juniper or other garden stuff, and says they be for children. The essay's writer says a platform of a princely garden has been made, partly by precept, partly by drawing, not a model, but some general lines of it.
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