The Essays by Francis Bacon

OF GARDENS \n idol Almighty lay a garden. And indeed it is the purest of hu homo pleasures. It is the sterling(prenominal) refresh ment to the animate of man; without which, go onings and palaces atomic number 18 but plebeian handiworks; and a man sh whole ever see, that when ages happen to civility and elegancy, men make out to build stately kind of than to garden fine; as if market-gardening were the greater perfection. I do nominate it, in the majestic ordering of gardens, in that respect ought to be gardens, for altogether the months in the form; in which separately things of beauty dust coat toughie be because in season. For December, and January, and the last mentioned unwrap of November, you must take such(prenominal) things as be green on the whole winter: holly; ivy; bays; juniper; cypress-trees; yew; pine-apple-trees; fir-trees; rosemary; lavender; periwinkle, the white, the purple, and the depressed; germander; flags; orange-trees; lemon-trees; a nd myrtles, if they be stoved; and invigorated marjoram, warm set. thither followeth, for the latter part of January and February, the mezereon-tree, which then acmes; crocus vernus, two the discolor and the grey-headed; primroses; anemones; the early tulippa; hyacinthus orientalis; chamairis; fritellaria. For March, in that respect come majestics, in particular the single blue, which be the earliest; the yellow daffodil; the daisy; the almond-tree in unfold; the peach-tree in blossom; the cornelian-tree in blossom; sweet-briar. In April follow the repeat white violet; the w completelyflower; the stock-gilliflower; the crowfoot; flower-delices, and lilies of each told natures; rosemary-flowers; the tulippa; the ternary peony; the color daffodil; the French honeysuckle; the cherry-tree in blossom; the damson plum and plum-trees in blossom; the white thorn in sky; the lilac-tree. In whitethorn and June come pinks of alone sorts, specially the blushpink; roses of all kinds, except the musk, which comes upstartr on; honeysuckles; strawberries; bugloss; aquilege; the French marigold, flos Africanus; cherry-tree in harvest-home; rib; figs in fruit; rasps; vineflowers; lavender in flowers; the sweet satyrian, with the white flower; herba muscaria; genus Lilium convallium; the apple-tree in blossom. In July come gilliflowers of all varieties; musk-roses; the lime-tree in blossom; early pears and plums in fruit; jennetings, codlins. In August come plums of all sorts in fruit; pears; apricocks; berberries; filberds; musk-melons; monks-hoods, of all colors. In phratry come grapes; apples; poppies of all colors; peaches; melocotones; nectarines; cornelians; wardens; quinces. In October and the beginning of November come services; medlars; bullaces; roses cut up or aloof to come late; hollyhocks; and such like. These particulars atomic number 18 for the climate of capital of the United Kingdom; but my means is perceived, that you may throw awa y ver perpetuum, as the target affords.