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your rooms. So may you do with Apricot trees, or other plum 

 trees, spreading them against the sides of your windows/' 



This great dehght in growing flowers for domestic decoration, 

 was a marked feature in EngHsh hfe at this period. A Dutch 

 traveller, Levimus Leminius, a physician and a native, Zierikzee, 

 visited England in 1560. He was charmed with English comfort, 

 and thus writes*: — "Their chambers and parlours strawed 

 over with sweete herbes refreshed mee ; — their nosegays finely 

 intermingled with sundry sorts of fragraunte floures, in their 

 bed chambers and privi rooms with comfortable smell cheered 

 me up and entirely delyghted all my senses." 



* Translation by Thomas Newton, published in Tlie Touchstone of 

 Complexions, 15S1 — reprinted in England as Seen by Foreigners. Brenchley 

 Rye. 



