'The Garden of Cyrus' or 'The Quincuncial Lozenge or Network Plantations of the Ancients
naturally artificially mystically considered' is a discourse by Sir Thomas Browne.
Ostensibly an essay promoting the use of the quincunx in planting trees whatever the value of
its wilder flights of fancy it was in that respect entirely practical and conventional as the
planting especially of orchards in multiples of quincunxes that is to say staggered straight
rows was already normal practice and as Browne says long had been as the most effective
pattern for maximizing sunlight on each tree.
