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double and single ; Purple cowslips and double 

 cowslips, primrose double and single, the violet 

 nothing behind the best for smelling sweetly, 

 and a thousand more will provoke your con- 

 tente, and all these by the skill of your Gardener 

 so comely and orderly placed in your Borders 

 and squares." 



Lawson's work is typical of the most charm- 

 ing side of the Renaissance in England, of its 

 delight in flowers and birds, and all rare and 

 beautiful things in art and nature ; but Bacon's 

 weight of intellect bore down this subtle delicate 

 instinct, and the treatises on this subject for 

 the next fifty years follow the lines of The 

 Sylva Sylvarum rather than The New Orchard 

 and Garden. 



