3io ZV Falconer on the Style and Fajle 
teemed. Some ola.nts a'fo, of the culinary Kind, 
as the endive/ R parfley, and the cucumber, 
were fometimes either planted as ornaments, 
or elfe intermixed with plants of that kind, con¬ 
trary to modern practice. 
I apprehend that flowers and fhrubs were plant¬ 
ed full as much among the Romans, for the 
fake of their odour, as the beauty of their ap¬ 
pearance.* Perfumes were always highly valued 
in warm climates. Virgil places Anchifcs t in 
Elyfium, in a grove of bays, and is careful to 
remark, that they were of the fweet fcented kin .% 
The Pseftan rofes were chiefly valued for then- 
excellent perfume; and the fame quality appears 
to be the caufe, why they were placed by Ti¬ 
bullus 1| as ornaments to the Elyfian fields. 
Etvmdes apio ripa:, tortufque per herbam 
Crefceret in Ventrem cucumis; nec iera comantem 
Narciflum, aut flexi tacuiflfem vimen acanthi, 
Pallentefque hederas, & amantes litora myrtos. 
Georgic, L. IV. L. 1 X 5 . 
* See Athenaeus paflim, & Anacreon. 
Jaflat odoratos Vota per Armenios. Tibulh, L. I. Eieg. 5. 
f Inter odoratum lauri nemus. Virg. iEneid. VI. 
I Calthaque Paeftanas vincet odore rofas. 
Ovid. Ep. de Pont. L- II. El. 4. 
H Floret odoratis terra benigna rofis. 
TibulliL. I. Eleg. 3. 
Athenaeus fpeaks of the rofe, entirely with a view to its 
odour. L. XV. P. 681, 682, edit. Cafaubon. 
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