170 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 
In 1664 Evelyn published his Kalendarium Hortense, or 
Gardener's Almanac, a most popular work, which went through 
a number of editions, and appeared with the last corrected 
edition of the Silva , in 1705, and Evelyn died at the end of 
the same year. The flowers to be planted and the business 
to be done in each month is carefully gone through. He 
gives also a list of the comparative tenderness of flowers, 
and divides them into three classes, those " least patient of 
cold/' " to be first set into the conservatory or otherwise 
defended,” those " enduring second degree of cold,” and 
accordingly "to be secured in the conservatory;” Class III. 
" not perishing but in excessive colds to be last set in or 
protected under matrasses or slighter coverings.” His classi¬ 
fications of some of the plants are rather singular. The first 
begins well with Acacia TEgyptiaca (= A . vera) , Aloe American 
( = Agave americana), then Amaranthus tricolor, but the list 
contains also Styrax Colutea, or bladder senna, and white 
lilac, which are hardy, while oranges, lemons, oleanders, and 
“ Spanish jasmine ” (/. odoratissimum) are in the second class 
with the " Suza Iris ” ( 7 . susiana ), " summer purple cyclamen” 
(C. europceum), and "Digitalis Hispan ” ( lutea ). The last 
list classes together pomegranates and pine-apples with Eryn- 
gium planum and winter aconite. 
In Rea's Flora, Ceres, and Pomona, the approximate size 
of a garden is given. The dimensions are much more modest 
than Bacon’s" princely garden,” eighty square yards for fruit 
and thirty square yards for flower-garden for a nobleman; 
for a " private gentleman 40 square yards fruit and 20 flower 
is enough ; a wall all round of brick 9 feet high, and a 5 feet 
wall to divide the fruit and flower gardens, or else pales painted 
a brick colour. The large square beds to be railed with wooden 
rails painted, or box-trees or pallisades for dwarf trees.” Most 
of the designs he gives are squares, with T or L shaped beds, 
fitting into the angles and along the walls of the garden, these 
borders to be about three yards wide. In the corners of each 
bed were to be planted " the best crown Imperials, lilies, 
Martagons, and such tall flowers, in the middle of the square 
beds great tufts of pionies, and round about them several sorts 
of cyclamen, the rest (of the beds) with Daffodils, Hyacinths, 
