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In May and June come pinks of all sorts, especially the blush 
pink ; roses of all kinds, except the musk, which comes later; honey¬ 
suckles, strawberries, hugloss, columbine, the French marigold, fios 
African us, cherry-tree in fruit, ribes, figs in fruit, rasps, vine-flowers, 
lavender in flowers, the sweet satyriam, with the white flower; herba 
muscaria, lilium convallium, the apple-tree in blossom. In July 
come gilliflovvers of all varieties, musk-roses, the lime-tree in blos¬ 
som, early pears, and plums in fruit, gennitings, cadlins. In Au¬ 
gust come plums of all sorts in fruit, pears, apricots, berberries, fil¬ 
berts, musk melons, monks hoods of all colours. In September 
come grapes, apples, poppies of all colours, peaches, nectarines, cor¬ 
nelians, quinces, melocotones,* wardens. In October, and the be¬ 
ginning of November, come services, medlars, bullaces, roses cut, or 
removed to come late, hollyhocks, and such like. These particulars 
are for the climate of London; but my meaning is perceived, that 
you may have “ ver perpetuum,” as the place affords. 
And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the open air, 
(where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music ;) than in the 
hand, therefore, nothing more fit for that delight, than to know what 
be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, da¬ 
mask and red, are fast flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk 
by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness; yea, 
though it be in a morning’s dew. Bays, likewise, yield no smell, as 
they grow, rosemary little, nor sweet-marjoram ; that which above 
all others yields the 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 Bartholomew tide. 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 dust, like the dust of 
a beut, which grows upon the cluster, on the first coming forth ; then 
sweet-briars, then wall-flowers, which are very delightful to be set 
under a parlour or lower chamber window; then pinks and gilliflow- 
ers, especially the matted pink, and clove-gilliflower; then the flow¬ 
ers of the lime-tree; then the honeysuckles, so they be somewhat 
afar off. Of bean-flowers, I speak not, because they are field-flow¬ 
ers ; but those which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed 
by, as the rest, but being trodden upon and crushed, are three, that 
is, burnet, wild thyme, and watermints; therefore you are to set 
whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure, where you walk or tread.” 
Then follows a plan for a “ prince-like garden,” which would, 
however, be misplaced in this paper. 
* Will you be kind enough to inform me, what kind of fruits these two are ? 
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