OF GARDENS BY LORD BACON 



peaches ; mal-catounes ; nectarines ; cornel- Flowers 

 ians; wardens; quinces. In October, and the jj,^ per- 

 beginning of November, comes services; med- fume the 

 lars; bullies; roses cut or removed to come late; a 

 hollyoaks; and suchlike. Thus, if you will, you 

 may have the Golden Age again and a spring all 

 the year long. 



And because the breath of flowers is far 

 sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, 

 like the warbling of music) than in the hand, 

 therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, 

 than to know, what be the flowers, and plants, 

 that do best perfume the air. Roses damask 

 and red are fast flowers of their smells; so that 

 you may walk by a whole row of them, and find 

 nothing of their sweetness ; yea, though it be in 

 a morning's dew. Bays likewise yield no smell, 

 as they grow. Rosemary little; nor sweet mar- 

 joram. That, which above all others, yields the 

 sweetest smell in the air, is the violet; specially 

 the white double violet, which comes twice a 

 year ; about the middle of April, and about Bar- 

 tholomew-tide. Next to that is the musk rose. 

 Then the strawberry leaves dying, which [yield] 

 a most excellent cordial smell. Then the flower 

 of the vines; it is a little dust, like the dust of a 

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