ON WINGS OF HOPE 7 



sweetest smell in the air is the violet, especially the white 

 double violet which comes twice a year, about the middle 

 of April and about Bartholomewtide. 



"Next to that is the musk rose; then the strawberry 

 leaves dying, with a most excellent cordial smell; then 

 the flower of the vines it is a little like the dust of a 

 grass which grows upon the cluster in the first coming 

 forth; then sweetbriar; then wallflowers, which are very 

 delightful to be set upon a parlor or lower chamber 

 window ; then pinks and gillyflowers, especially the mat- 

 ted pink and clove gillyflower; then the flowers of the 

 lime tree; then the honeysuckle so they be somewhat 

 afar off. Of bean flowers I speak not, because they are 

 field flowers. But those which perfume the air most de- 

 lightfully, not passed by as the rest, but being trodden 

 upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme, 

 and water mints; therefore you are to set whole alleys of 

 them to have pleasure when you walk or tread." 



As he considers still further man's making of gardens, 

 to which God Almighty first pointed the way in Eden, he 

 looks adown the year in the long procession of months 

 and writes, "I doe hold it, in the Royall Ordering of 

 Gardens, that there ought to be gardens for all months 

 of the year; in which severally things of beauty may be 

 there in season." What sensible advice this is posies 

 to greet the swallow, others for grasshopper and harvest 

 time, others to abide with the cricket. 



