even ravish our senses, as well as perfectly improve the
_Aer_ about _London_; and that, without the least prejudice to the
Owners and Proprietors of the Land to be employ'd about it.' Evelyn
further recommended 'That the _Spaces_, or _Area_ between these
_Pallisads_, and _Fences_, be employ'd in Beds and Bordures of _Pinks_,
_Carnations_, _Clove_, _Stock-gilly-flower_, _Primroses_, _Auriculas_,
_Violets_, not forgetting the _White_, which are in flower twice a year,
_April_ and _August_; _Cowslips_, _Lillies_, _Narcissus_,
_Strawberries_, whose very leaves as well as fruit, emit a _Cardiague_,
and most refreshing _Halitus_: also _Parietria Lutea_, _Musk_, _Lemmon_,
and _Mastick_: _Thyme_, _Spike_, _Cammomile_, _Balm_, _Mint_,
_Marjoram_, _Pimpernel_, _Serpillum_, etc., which upon the least
pressure and cutting, breathe out and betray their ravishing Odors.'
Plantations of trees were also to be made and nurseries formed, which
would have the additional advantage, besides mere beauty and ornament,
of providing for the fields--'better Shelter, and Pasture for Sheep and
Cattel then now; that they lie bleak, expos'd and abandon'd to the
winds, which perpetually invade them.' It is said that the planting of
Lime trees in St. James' Park was due to these suggestions. Evelyn's
recommendations concluded with the exhorting that 'the further
exhorbitant encrease of _Tenements_, poor and nasty _Cottages_ near the
City, be prohibited, which disgrace and take off from the sweetness and
amoenity of the Environs of _London_, and are already become a great
_Eye-sore_ in the grounds opposite to _His Majesty's Palace_ of
_White-hall_; which being converted to this use, might yield a diversion
inferior to none that could be imagin'd for _Health_, _Profit_, and
_Beauty_, which are the three _Transcendencies_ that render a place
without all exception. And _this_ is what (in short) I had to offer, for
the _Improvement_ and _Melioration_ of the _Aer_ about _London_, and
with which I shall conclude this discourse.'

Besides dedicating his pamphlet especially to the King, as well as
proposing, on the title-page, the remedy "To His Sacred Majestie, and To
the Parliament now Assembled", Evelyn likewise adresses himself "To the
Reader" by way of a second introduction; and he does so in these plainer
and rather contemptuous terms:-- 'I have little here to add to implore
thy good opinion and approbation, after I have submitted this Essay to
his Sacr