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verſity of a thouſand Sorts of unknown Fruits, their Freſhneſs and Beauty, raviſh’d my Sight.
I ought not to forget, Madam, to acquaint you, that this delicious Orchard was water’d after a very particular manner; there were Channels ſo artificialy and proportionably digg’d, that they carried Water in abundance to the Roots of ſuch Trees as wanted it, for making them produce their Leaves and Flowers. Others carried it to thoſe that had their Fruit budded: Some carried it in leſſer Quantities to thoſe whoſe Fruit was growing big, and others carried only ſo much as was juſt requiſite to water thoſe who had their Fruit come to perfection and only wanted to be ripen’d. They exceeded the ordinary Fruits of our Gardens very much in bigneſs; and laſtly, thoſe Channels that watered the Trees whoſe Fruit was ripe, had no more Moiſture than juſt what would preſerve them from withering.
I could never be weary to look at and admire fo ſweet a Place; and I ſhould never have left it, had I not conceived a greater Idea of the other Things which I had not ſeen. I went out at laſt with my Mind fill’d with thoſe Wonders: I ſhut the Door and open’d the next.
Inſtead of an Orchard, I found a Flower-Garden, which was no leſs extraordinary in its kind: It contained a ſpacious Plot not water’d ſo profuſely as the former, but with greater Niceneſs, furniſhing no more Water than juſt what each Flower requir’d. The Roſes, Jeſſemins, Violets, Dills, Hyacinths, Wind-Flowers, Tulips, Crow-Foots, Pinks, Lillies and an infinite number of other Flowers, which don’t grow in other Places but at certain times, were there flouriſhing all at once, and nothing could be more delicicus than the fragrant Smell of this Garden.
I open’d the third Door, where I found a large Volary pav’d with Marble of ſeveral fine Colours that were not common. The Cage was made of Sanders and Wood of Aloes, it contain’d a vaſt number of Nightingales, Goldfinches, Canary-Birds, Larks, and other rare Singing-Birds, which I never heard of, and the Veſſels that held their Seed and Water, were of the moſt precious Jaipis or Agat.
Beſides, this Volary was ſo exceeding neat, that conſidering its Extent, one would think there could be no leſs than a hundred Perſons to keep it ſo clean as it was; but allthis
