 | Francis Bacon - 1891 - 466 pages
...and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers 1 of their smell, so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find...nothing of their sweetness; yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Bays, likewise, yield no smell as they grow, rosemary little, nor sweet marjoram; that... | |
 | 1894 - 756 pages
...roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells " — that "IB, do not diffuse them abroad — " so that you may walk by a whole row of them and find...nothing of their sweetness ; yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Bays, likewise," he continues, "yield no smell as they grow, rosemary little, nor sweet... | |
 | Calendars - 1895 - 416 pages
...what be the Flowers, and Plants, that do best perfume the air. Roses, Damask and Red, are fast Flowers of their Smells ; so that, you may walk by a whole...nothing of their Sweetness ; yea, though it be in a Morning's Dew. Bays likewise yield no smell, as they grow. Rosemary little, nor Sweet-Marjoram. That,... | |
 | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - Gardening - 1895 - 372 pages
...summer of 1893, and I have abridged it accordingly. that, unlike other roses, which 'are fast flowers of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row...nothing of their sweetness; yea, though it be in a morning's dew' (Bacon), this rose gives out its scent of its own accord for many yards round, and to... | |
 | Thomas Fairman Ordish - England - 1897 - 346 pages
...what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk by a whole...nothing of their sweetness, yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Bays likewise yield no smell as they grow, rosemary little, nor sweet marjoram. That... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 488 pages
...what be the Flowers and Plants that do best perfume the Air. Roses, Damask and Red, are fast Flowers of their Smells, so that you may walk by a whole Row...yield no Smell as they grow, Rosemary little, nor Sweet-Marjoram. That, which above all others, yields the sweetest smell in the Air, is the Violet,... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 508 pages
...what be the Flowers and Plants that do best perfume the Air. Roses, Damask and Red, are fast Flowers of their Smells, so that you may walk by a whole Row...yield no Smell as they grow, Rosemary little, nor Sweet-Marjoram. That, which above all others, yields the sweetest smell in the Air, is the Violet,... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 474 pages
...what be the Flowers and Plants that do best perfume the Air. Roses, Damask and Red, are fast Flowers of their Smells, so that you may walk by a whole Row...yield no Smell as they grow, Rosemary little, nor Sweet-Marjoram. That, which above all others, yields the sweetest smell in the Air, is the Violet,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Didactic literature, English - 1900 - 462 pages
...what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers .of their smells"; so that you may walk by a whole...nothing of their sweetness ; yea though it be in a morning's dew. Bays likewise yield no smell as they grow. Rosemary little ; nor sweet marjoram. That... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1900 - 374 pages
...what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk by a whole...nothing of their sweetness ; yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Bays likewise yield no smell as they grow. Rosemary little ; nor sweet marjoram. That... | |
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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 is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.... 
