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developed when the sun shines on most kinds of 

 fragrant plants, such as scented flowers, Fir and 

 Pine trees, and sweet Herbs generally. This idea 

 makes the hours we spend in a sunny fragrant 

 garden more delightftd than ever. 



And not only gardens such as these, but their 

 harvests, gathered up and garnered, are friU of 

 virtue, which happily they retain. In one of his 

 essays. Sir William Temple, describing the effects 

 of a visit he once paid to a storehouse that was 

 full of many kinds of spicery, declared that he 

 and his party felt so renewed and revived by the 

 aromatic fragrances around them as to enjoy for 

 a long time afterwards 'an exaltation of good 

 health, good humour, and good spirits.' He was 

 in agreement with John Evelyn, that wise and 

 famous gardener of old, who soberly proposed to 

 make London the healthiest as well as the happiest 

 city in Christendom, by encompassing it vdth plots 

 and hedgerows of Sweetbriar, Jasmine, Lilies, 

 Rosemary, Musk, and Marjoram. One cannot but 

 suppose that the gardens at King Edward VII. 

 Sanatorium at Midhurst were laid out and furnished 

 according to this idea, such a large number of the 

 beds and borders being filled with Rosemary, 

 Lavender, Hyssop, Cat-Mint, Santolina, and many 



