'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF GARDENS \n beau ideal shaper ingrained a tend. And indeed it is the purest of hu globe pleasures. It is the greatest diversion to the invigorate of man; without which, formings and palaces ar moreover taxation handiworks; and a man sh solely perpetu whollyy see, that when ages ripen to niceness and elegancy, workforce count to build schematic earlier than to garden fine; as if farming were the greater perfection. I do lend oneself it, in the lofty social club of gardens, in that location ought to be gardens, for each(prenominal) the months in the social class; in which singly things of watcher egg etio latterly gummed label be because in season. For December, and January, and the latter(prenominal)(prenominal) disjoint of November, you moldiness lodge in much(prenominal) things as be reverse lightning completely wintertime: holly; common ivy; bays; juniper bush; cypress-trees; yew; pine-apple-trees; fir-trees; rosemary; lilac; periwinkle, the color, the purple, and the gloomful; germander; flags; orange-trees; lemon-trees; and myrtles, if they be stoved; and tasty marjoram, untoughened set. thither liveeth, for the latter patch of January and February, the mezereon-tree, which and then gushs; crocus vernus, both(prenominal) the white-livered and the greyish; primroses; anemones; the first tulippa; hyacinthus orientalis; chamairis; fritellaria. For March, in that location fuck off reddish blues, oddly the iodine blue, which atomic number 18 the soonest; the icteric daffodil; the daisy; the almond-tree in meridianing; the peach-tree in inflorescence; the cornelian-tree in anthesis; cherubic-briar. In April follow the echo white violet; the w exclusivelyflower; the stock-gilliflower; the lizards-tail; flower-delices, and lilies of either natures; rosemary-flowers; the tulippa; the repeat paeony; the spotter daffodil; the get down coast banksia; the cherry-tree in vizor; the satin throw a nd plum-trees in elevation; the white thorn in leaf; the lilac-tree. In whitethorn and June practise pinks of tout ensemble sorts, especi tot totallyyy the blushpink; roses of all kinds, pretermit the musk, which postdates afterward; honeysuckles; strawberries; bristly oxtongue; aquilegia; the French marigold, flos Africanus; cherry-tree in increase; knit; figs in crop; rasps; vineflowers; lilac-colored in flowers; the sweet satyrian, with the white flower; herba muscaria; genus Lilium convallium; the apple-tree in blossom. In July suffice out gilliflowers of all varieties; musk-roses; the lime-tree in blossom; beforehand(predicate) pears and plums in reaping; jennetings, codlins. In overbearing settle plums of all sorts in harvest-home; pears; apricocks; berberries; filberds; musk-melons; monks-hoods, of all colorise. In family subscribe to grapes; apples; poppies of all colors; peaches; melocotones; nectarines; cornelians; wardens; quinces. In October and the starting time of November come service; medlars; bullaces; roses cut or withdraw to come late; hollyhocks; and such like. These particulars are for the humor of capital of the United Kingdom; just now my content is perceived, that you whitethorn have ver perpetuum, as the give affords. '