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cherry-tree in blossom, the damascene and plum-trees 

 in blossom, the white thorn in leaf, the lilac-tree. In 

 May and June come pinks of all sorts, especially the 

 blush pink, roses of all kinds except the musk, which 

 comes later ; also honeysuckles, strawberries, bugloss, 

 columbine, the French marigold, flos Africanus, cherry- 

 tree in fruit, ribes, figs in fruit, rasps, vine flowers, 

 lavender in flowers, the sweet satyrian (with the white 

 flower), herba muscaria, lilium convallium, the apple- 40 

 tree in blossom. In July come gilliflowers of all 

 varieties, musk-roses, the lime-tree in blossom, early 

 pears, and plums in fruit, jennetings, codlings. In 

 August come plums of all sorts in fruit, pears, apri- 

 cocks, barberries, filberts, musk-melons, monkshoods 

 of all colours. In September come grapes, apples, 

 poppies of all colours, peaches, melocotones, nectarines, 

 cornelians, wardens, quinces. In October and the 

 beginning of November come services, medlars, bul- 

 laces, roses cut or removed to come late, hollyoaks, 50 

 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. 

 Sweet And, because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in 



Ihe 1 * 8 ^ ^ ne a i r (where it comes and goes like the warbling of 

 Garden, 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 eo 

 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 marjoram. That 

 which above all others yields the sweetest smell in 



