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Herb Gardens

(Hippodrome)
In the beginning, cultivating herbs in gardens of their own, seems to date back to Ancient Egypt, where herbs were used extensively in temples of rituals and cleansing and so were grown for those purposes.
In Islamic cultures, where paradise was imagined as a beautiful, unclosed garden, useful plants were grown within enclosures.  Roman villa grounds [...]