Identifier: storiesofpersons00bene (find matches)
Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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of love and matrimony that they might grant their aid in brighten-ing his future. Scarcely a worshipper ever entered the temple uncrowned,and as each deity was supposed to have its favorite flowers, he changed hisgarland for every one he visited. With such a demand, therefore, as there was in ancient Greece for flowers,their culture was an important branch of industry. Every garden had itsflower-plot, and the whole was so arranged that every shrub and plant whichwas not ornamental as well as useful, was hidden behind copses of rhododen-drons, myrtle, or oleander, which, at the proper time of year became a blazeof blossoms. No ungainly fences separated a mans garden from that of his neighbors,but rows of olive or plain trees thirty or forth feet apart, or loose hedges offragment phillyrea, broken into gaps here and there to admit banks of wild-flowers. They had no fear of being plundered; the wealthy used to invitethe people to stroll at will through their gardens, and public footpaths
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TYPES AND COSTUMES OF EARLY GRECIAN LIFE. 422 ^Persons and Places in Europe. often traversed private orchards, vineyards and kitchen gardens. There isno record that the public ever abused the trust. The windows of the ladies usually opened toward the garden, so thatshaded by amber or purple curtains, they could lean out on the sills of marble,or carved cedar, and fill their eyes and nostrils with the early morning beautyand fragrance. Before their eyes were waves of peach, apple and pome-granite blossoms, and in the distance plane-tree avenues dotted with cupolasof white marble glittering like newly carved alabaster in the sun. Leaving the house to stroll out in the garden, the first thing encoun-tered was a row of rue plants, extending right and left to mark the boun-dary of the flower department. Passing this one came in the midst of gilly-flowers, pinks, carnations, beds of matted violets, thickets of roses, hil-locks of wild thyme encircling clusters of the sweetest flowers, overh

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