Careful Words

planted (adj.)

  God Almighty first planted a garden.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Of Gardens.

  I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

New Testament: 1 Corinthians iii. 6.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree

I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.

I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 10.