Note 96 — ALAEDDIN; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP.

These are the Gardens of the Hesperides and of King Isope (Tale of Beryn Supplem. Canterbury Tales, Chaucer Soc. p. 84):—

In mydward of this gardyn stant a feirè tre

Of alle manner levis that under sky be,

I-forgit and i-fourmyd, echè in his degre

Of sylver, and of golde fyne, that lusty been to see.

So in the Kathá (S. S.) there are trees with trunks of gold, branches of pearls, and buds and flowers of clear white pearls.