Evolution of Horticulture 



agnus-castus, and other odoriferous shrubs 

 intermingled, clustering round a pome- 

 granate tree, were usually placed on ele- 

 vated spots, that, being thus exposed to 

 the winds, they might the more freely 

 diffuse their sweetness. The spaces be- 

 tween trees were sometimes planted with 

 roses and lilies and violets and golden 

 crocuses : and sometimes presented a 

 breadth of smooth, close, green sward, 

 sprinkled with wild flowers, as the violet 

 and the blue veronica, the pink and the 

 pale primrose, the golden motherwort, 

 the cowslip, the daisy, the pimpernel, and 

 the periwinkle. 



" In many gardens the custom was to 

 plant each kind of tree in separate groups, 

 and each species of flower-bed also had, 

 as now in Holland, a distinct space as- 

 signed to it ; so that there were beds of 

 white violets, of irises, of the golden 

 cynosure, of hyacinths, of ranunculuses, 

 of the blue campanula, of white gilli- 

 flowers, and the branchy asphodel. " 



The Romans practised very much the 

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