LITTLE GARDENS 



nues, arbors, fountains, lawns, and an edge of 

 wilderness. In a space like that it would not be 

 difficult to have a succession of blooms so long 

 as the weather permitted any. It is worth while 

 to quote from this discourse, if only to observe 

 how little or how much of the English language 

 has become incomprehensible in the last three 

 centuries : 



" God Almightie first Planted a Garden. 

 And indeed, it is the Purest of Humane pleas- 

 ures. It is the Greatest Refreshment to the 

 Spirits of Man; Without which, Buildings and 

 Pallaces are but Grosse Handy-works: And a 

 Man shall ever see, that when Ages grow to Civ- 

 ility and Elegancie, Men come to Build Stately, 

 sooner then to Garden Finely: As if Gardening 

 were the Greater Perfection. I doe hold it, in 

 the Royall Ordering of Gardens, there ought to 

 be Gardens for all the Moneths in the Yeare : In 

 which, severally. Things of Beautie, may be then 

 in Season. For December, and January, and the 

 Latter Part of November, you must take such 

 Things, as are Greene all Winter; Holly; Ivy; 

 Bayes; Juniper; Cipresse Trees; Eugh; Pine- 

 Apple-Trees; Firre-Trees; Rose-Mary; Lavan- 

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