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supply'd, with such shrubs as yield the most fragrant and 

 odoriferous flowers, and are aptest to tinge the Aer upon 

 every gentle emission at a great distance : such as are (for 

 instance among many others) the sweet-brier, all the 

 periclymena's and woodbines ; the common white and yellow 

 jessamine, both the syringa's or pipe trees; the guelder rose, 

 the musk, and all other roses ; genista hispanica : to these 

 may be added the rubus odoratus, bayes juniper, lignum-vite, 

 lavender : but above all, rosemary, the flowers whereof are 

 credibly reported to give their scent above thirty leagues off 

 at sea, upon the coasts of Spain : and at some distance 

 towards the meadow side, vines ; yea, hops 



Et arbuta passim, 



Et glaucas salices, casiamque crocumque rubentem, 

 Et pinguem tiliam, & ferrugineos hyacinthos. 



For there is a sweet smelling sally, 1 and the blossoms of 

 the tilia or lime-tree, 2 are incomparably fragrant ; in brief, 

 whatsoever is odoriferous and refreshing. 



That the spaces or area between these palisads and 

 fences, be employ'd in beds and bordures of pinks, carnations, 

 clove, stock-gilly-flower, primroses, auriculas, violets, not 

 forgetting the white, which are in flower twice a year, April 

 and August : cowslips, lilies, narcissus, strawberries, whose 

 very leaves as well as fruit emit a cardiaque, and most 

 refreshing halitus : also parietaria lutea, musk lemmon, and 

 mastick, thyme, spike, cammomile, balm, mint, majoram, 

 pempernel, and serpillum, &c. which, upon the least pressure 

 and cutting, breathe out and betray their ravishing odors. 



That the fields, and crofts within these closures, or 

 invironing gardens, be some of them planted with wild thyme, 

 and others reserved for plots of beans, pease (not cabbages, 

 whose rotten and perishing stalks have a very noisom and 



1 Sallow or willow. 



2 It has been conjectured that probably the lime-trees in St. 

 James's Park were planted in consequence of this suggestion. 



