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Show Making a Garden. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where It comes and goes, like the warbling of music, than in the hand, therefore nothing noth-ing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. . . . That which above all others yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet; vio-let; especially the white double violet which comes twice a year, about the middle of April and about Bartholomew Bartholo-mew tide. . . . Then wall flowers, which are very delightful to be set under un-der a parlor or lower chamber window; win-dow; then pinks and gilliflowers, especially es-pecially the matted pink and clove gil-liflower gil-liflower ; then the flowers of the lime tree; then the honeysuckles, so they be somewhat far off. Of beauflowers I speak not, because they are field flowers; 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 water mints. Therefore There-fore you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread. Francis Bacon. |