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July come gilliflowers of all varieties, musk- 

 roses, and lime-tree in blossom, early pears, and 

 plums in fruit, genitings, codlins. In August 

 come plums of all sorts in fruit, pears, apricots, 

 barberries, filberts, muskmelons, monk's-hoods, 

 of all colors. In September come grapes, ap- 

 ples, poppies of all colors, peaches, meloco- 

 tones, nectarines, cornelians, wardens, quinces. 

 In October, and the beginning of November, 

 come services, medlars, bullaces, roses cut or 

 removed to come late, hollyoaks, and such like. 

 These particulars are for the climate of London, 

 but my meaning is perceived, that you may 

 have ver perpetuum, as the place affords. 



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 ; there- 

 fore 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 morn- 

 ing's dew. Bays, likewise, yield no smell as 

 they grow, rosemary little, nor sweet marjoram ; 

 that which, above all others, yields the sweetest 

 smell in the air is the violet, especially the 

 white double violet, which comes twice a year, 

 about the middle of April, and about Bartholo- 



