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The Garden as Considered in Literature by Certain Polite Writers
The Garden as Considered in Literature by Certain Polite Writers Author:Walter Howe General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1890 Original Publisher: G. P. Putnam's sons Subjects: Gardening Gardening / General Gardening / Essays Gardening / Garden Design Gardening / Reference Gardening / Regional / General Gardening / Techniques Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the ori... more »ginal. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LORD BACON. OF GARDENS. GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. For December, and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter : holly, ivy, bays, juniper, Cyprus-trees, yew, pineapple-trees, fir-trees, rosemary, lavender; periwinkle, the white, the purple, and theblue; germander, flags, orange-trees, lemon- trees, and myrtles, if they be stoved; and sweet marjoram, warm set. There followeth for the latter part of January and February, the mezereon-tree, which then blossoms: crocus vernus, both the yellow and the gray; primroses, anemones, the early tulipa, the hyacin- thus orientalis; chamairis fritellaria. For March, there come violets, especially the single blue, which are the earliest; the yellow daffodil, the daisy, the almond-tree in blossom, the peach-tree in blossom, the cornelian-tree iu blossom; sweet-brier. In April follow the double white ...« less