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make their Gorge deliver. The Table at which we sate was round, 

 which being fast to the Floor whereon we sate, and that divided 

 from the rest of the Buildings, with turning a Vice (which Basilius 

 at first did to make me sport), the Table, and we about the Table, 

 did all turn round, by means of Water which ran under, and carried 

 it about as a mill. ' The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia] Book I. 



OD Almighty first planted a Garden ; and indeed it is the FRANCIS 



purest of humane pleasure. It is the greatest refreshment ?^99^T 



... . Lord Verulam 



to the Spirits of Man, without which Buildings and Palaces (1561-1626). 



are but gross Handy-works. And a Man shall ever see, that 

 when Ages grow to Civility and Elegancy, Men come to build 

 stately, sooner than to garden finely : as if Gardening were the 

 Greater Perfection. I do hold it in the Royal Ordering of 

 Gardens, there ought to be Gardens for all the Months in the 

 Year, in which, severally, things of Beauty may be then in season. 



For December and January, and the latter part of November, 

 you must take such things as are green all Winter : Holly, Ivy, 

 Bays, Juniper, Cypress-Trees, Yews, Pine-Apple Trees, Fir-Trees, 

 Rosemary, Lavender, Periwinckle, the White, the Purple, and 

 the Blue, Germander, Flags, Orange-Trees, Limon-Trees, and 

 Myrtles, if they be stirred, and Sweet Marjoram warm set. 



There followeth, for the latter part of January and February, 

 the Mezerion Tree, which then blossoms, Crocus Vernus, both 

 the Yellow and the Grey, Prim-Roses, Anemones, the Early 

 Tulippa, Hiacynthus Orientalis, Chamairis, Frettellaria. 



For March, there come Violets, specially the Single Blue, 

 which are the Earliest, the yellow Daffadil, the Daisy, the 

 Almond-Tree in blossom, the Peach-Tree in blossom, the 

 Cornelian-Tree in blossom, Sweet Briar. 



In April follow the double White Violet, the Wall-Flower, the 

 Stock-Gilly-Flower, the Cowslip, Flower-de-Lices, and Lilies of 

 all natures, Rosemary-Flowers, the Tulippa, the Double Piony, 

 the pale Daffadill, the French Honey-Suckle, the Cherry-Tree 



