Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — The Fragrance of Flowers. [ARTICLE]

The Fragrance of Flowers.

And bocauso the breath of flowers is far sweeter In the air (whore It comes and goes, like the warbling of muaio) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more lit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air, lio9es, damask and red, do not give out their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row of them and And nothing of their sweetness; yea, though it be in a nu*r»itog'a dew. Bays, likewise, yield no smell as they grow, rosemary little, nor sweet marjoram; that whioh above all others yields the swoetest smell In the ah Is the volet, specially tho white double violet. Noxt to that is the musk rose; then the strawberry leaves dyihg, with a most excellent cordial smell; then tho flower of tho vines; it is a little dust, like tho dust of a bent, which grows upon tho cluster in the first coming forth; then sweet briar; then wall flowers, which are very delightful to be set under a parlor or lower chamber window; then pink, especially the matted pink, and clove gllllflower; then tho flowers of tho limo tree; then the honeysuckles, so they be somewhat afar oft. Of bean flowors I speak not, bocauso 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, buraet, wild thyme, and water mints. Therefore, you ape to set whole alleys of them to have tho pleasure when you walk or tread. —Lord Bacon.