Objectionable cottages had thus apparently only recently, probably during the democratic Commonwealth, been erected to the east of Whitehall, and were surrounded by fields. These fields were to be divided into blocks of about 20 to 40 acres, and palisades or fences of shrubs were to enclose belts of 150 feet or more between the various fields. The fences were to be formed or filled with sweetbriar, periclymena, woodbine, jessamine, syringa, guelder-rose, musk and other roses, broom, juniper, lavender, and so on,--‘but above all _Rosemary_, the _Flowers_ whereof are credibly reported to give their sent above thirty Leagues off at Sea, upon the coasts of Spain. Those who take notice of the Sent of the _Orange_-flowers from the Rivage of Genöa, and _St. Pietro dell’ Arena_; the Blosomes of _Rosemary_ from the Coasts of _Spain_ many leagues off at Sea; or the manifest and odoriferous wafts which flow from _Fontenoy_ and _Vaugirard_, even to _Paris_ in the season of _Roses_, with the contrary Effects of those less pleasing smells from other accidents, will easily consent to what I suggest: And, I am able to enumerate a Catalogue of native _Plants_, and such as are familiar to our Country and Clime, whose redolent and agreeable Emissions would 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