THE GARDEN OF CYRUS 



thatunextinguishable laugh in heaven, since Foretellers 

 the gods themselves could not discern it, we of s P rm g 

 shall not pry into it : although why Vulcan 

 bound them, Neptuneloosed them, and Apollo 

 should first discover them, might afford no vul- 

 gar mythology. 



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Now although this elegant ordination of 

 vegetables hath found coincidence or imitation 

 in sundry works of art, yet is it not also desti- 

 tute of natural examples ; and, though over- 

 looked by all, was elegantly observable, in sev- 

 eral works of nature. 



The same is observably effected in the/7j, 

 catkins, or pendulous excrescences of several 

 trees ; of walnuts, alders, and hazels, which 

 hanging all the winter, and maintaining their 

 network close, by the expansion thereof are the 

 early foretellers of the spring : discoverable also 

 in long pepper, and elegantly in ihejutus of cal- 

 amus aromaticus, so plentifully growing with us, 

 in the first palms of willows, and in the flowers 

 of sycamore, petasites, asphodelus^ and blat- 



