Note 3 — VII.

Nearly twelve months after writing thus about healthful Flower-scents, I found in Austen’s “Treatise of Fruit-trees,” 1657, a curious confirmation of my idea, which appears, indeed, to be an old one. He writes, “Health is preserved by pleasant and wholesome Odors, and perfumes found in the garden of Fruit-trees,... from the blossomes of all the Fruit-trees,... which are not simply Healthfull, but are accompted cordiall; chearing and refreshing the heart and vitall spirits.”—Note, April, 1884.