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indeterminate color, ever new and ever varying as 

 the flowers of the different seasons succeeded each 

 other. 



The third principle was to produce a garden of 

 flowers and shrubs for all seasons, even winter, that 

 would tempt the owner to take pleasure and exer- 

 cise there, where he might find recreation, literally 

 re-creation of mind and body, and become freshened 

 in spirit and renewed in health. 



The fourth principle was to produce a garden 

 that would give delight to the sense of smell as well 

 as to the sense of vision an idea no longer sought 

 for by gardeners. 



Hence it was just as important, and infinitely 

 more subtle, to mingle the perfumes of flowers while 

 growing so that the air would be deliciously scented 

 by a combination of harmonizing odors as to mingle 

 the perfumes of flowers plucked for a nosegay, or 

 Tussie-mussie, as the Elizabethans sometimes 

 quaintly called it. 



Like all cultivated Elizabethans, Shakespeare ap- 

 preciated the delicious fragrance of flowers blooming 

 in the garden when the soft breeze is stirring their 

 leaves and petals. There was but one thing to which 

 this subtle perfume might be compared and that was 



