Gardening, agriculture. Adam was appointed byGod to dress the garden of Eden, and to keep it (Gen. ii. 15); and after the fall he was sent out of the garden “to till the ground” (Gen. iii. 23).
“There is no ancient gentlemen, but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they holdupAdam’s profession.”—The Clown in “Hamlet,” v. 1.
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