CHAPTER XIII. 



FLORA THE TULIP, THE ROSE, THE 

 JESSAMINE ABERCROMBY'S WORKS. 



Alfric's tenth-century vocabulary, 

 under the Names of Trees, we 

 have various kinds of oak, two 

 sorts of hazel, the nut, the beech, the laurel, 

 the apple (probably a crab), the pear, the 

 medlar, the pine, the yew, the plum, the fig, the 

 palm, the fir, the elm, the broom, the maple, 

 the poplar, the heath, and many others. The 

 list is extremely curious, and from the absence 

 of any attempt at classification we may be 

 entitled to form some idea of the want of any 

 settled principles for laying out shrubberies, 

 plantations, and gardens. It is much the same 

 in the passage where Johannes de Garlandia 

 is communicating to us what grew in his own 

 grounds ; he adds, by the way, the vines, the 



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