26 Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. 



ticulars are for the climate of London ; but 

 my meaning is perceived that you may have 

 ver perpetuum, as the place affords." 



The essayist speaks of the peach-tree as 

 in blossom in March, but his March might 

 be our April. It seems useless to copy from 

 a book so common and so famous ; yet there 

 are points of some importance to be re- 

 corded, namely, that artificial warmth was 

 now effected by means of stoves of some 

 rude type to the protection in winter of 

 exotics and delicate trees, and that among 

 these the lemon occurs for the first time in 

 company with the orange and the myrtle. 

 The latter thrives in the west of England in 

 the open air; but the other two seldom 

 prosper in this climate, even under a tropical 

 temperature. 



Bacon places under April in his calendar, 

 with the double white violet, the stock, and 

 others, the tulip, which has not hitherto 

 occurred. But he does not mark it as a 

 novelty. I shall have more to say of 

 it hereafter. It is an historical flower. 

 Under February he cites the mezereon-tree 



