A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Workhouse, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind. (William Penn)

A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Workhouse, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.

William Penn

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