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refreshment," but he did not care for pools, nor did 

 he favor aviaries "unless they were large enough to 

 have living plants and bushes set in them and supply 

 natural nesting for the birds." 



We have already seen that Bacon was very choice 

 regarding "the flowers that best perfume the air"; 

 and he felt it was very essential that people should 

 know what to plant for the different seasons. So 

 he tells us : 



"There ought to be gardens for all months of the 

 year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be 

 in season. For December and January and the lat- 

 ter part of November, you must take such things as 

 are green all winter: holly, ivy, bays, juniper, 

 cypress-trees, yew, pine, apple-trees, fir-trees, rose- 

 mary, lavender, periwinkle, the white, the purple, 

 and the blue ; germander, flags ; orange-trees, lemon- 

 trees and myrtle, if they be stoved; and sweet 

 marjoram warm set. There followeth for the lat- 

 ter part of January and February, the mezerion tree 

 which then blossoms; crocus vernus, both the yel- 

 low and the gray; primroses, anemones, the early 

 tulip, hyacinthus orientalis, chamaires fritellaria. 

 For March there come violets, especially the single 

 blue, which are the earliest, the yellow daffodil, the 

 daisy, the almond-tree in blossom, the peach-tree in 



