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6 grows with the flowers can contain a whole world.

Month by month Bacon plants for you his garden and tells of flowers and trees which blossom in his ideal spot, We, too, to-day have "Roses of all kinds" and all the flowers he boasts of, but had he been more of a true gardener and less of an ideal literary genius, he could have gathered together a sweeter story of a year, Mr. W. Aldis Wright tells us in a note that in two copies of the Edition of 1625 ''the following sentence is substituted for the words at the end of his season's calendar. "Thus, if you will, you may have the Golden Age againe, and a Spring all the Yeare long," The Golden''