— Lheordering of the Garden of Pleafure, gar he 
deththe more care, labour, and coft to bee beftowed thereon, both to erderit rightly, 
& foto preferucit from time to time : fer no artificiall or forc’t ground can endure good 
any long time, but that withina few yeares it muft be refrefhed more or lefle, accardin 
as itdoth require. Yet you hall likewife vnderftand, that this Garden of pleafure dored 
withthefe Out-landifh flowers ; that is, bulbous and tuberous rooted plants, and other : 
fine flowers, that I haue hereafter defcribed, and affigned ynto it, needeth not fo inuch fa. 
or fo often manuring with foyle, éc. as another Garden planted with the other {forts of ) 
‘Englith flowers, ora Garden of ordinary Kitchin herbes doth. Yourground likewife’ 
for-this Gales, had needeto bee well cleanfed from allannoyances (that may hinder 
the well dojng or profpering of the flowers therein)as ftones, weedes , rootes of trees, 
buthes, &c.' and all other things cumberfome or hurtfull ; and therefore the earth being 
not naturally fine enough of it felfe, is vfedto bee fiftedtomake itthe finer, and that - 
either through a burdle made of fticksjor lathes, or through f{quare or round fieues plat- 
ted with fine and ftrong thin ftickes, or with wyers inthe bettome. Or elfe the whole 
earth of the Garden being courfe, may becaft in the fame manner that men vfe to try or 
fine fand from grauell, that is, againft a wall ; whereby the courfer and more ftony, fal- 
ling downe from the fine, is to betaken away from the foote of the heape; the finer fand 
atid groundremaining ftill aboue,and onthe heape. Or elfe in the want of a wall to caft 
‘Ht againft, I haue feenc earth fined by it felfe in this manner : Hauing made the floore or 
vpper part of a large plat of ground cleane from ftones, &c. lectherea reafonable round 
heape of fine carth be fet in the midft thereof, or in fteadthereofa large Garden flower- 
pot, or other great-pot, the bottome turned vpwards, and then poure your courfe earth 
onthe top or head thereof, one fhouell full after another fomewhat gently, andthereby 
all théecourfe ftuffe and ftones will falldowneto the bortome round about the heape, 
which mutt continually be carefully taken away , and thus you may make your earth as_ 
fine as if it were caft againft a wall, the heape being growne great, {cruing if ftead there- 
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of. Thofe that will not prepare their grounds in fome of thefe.manncrs¢forefaid, fhall 
foonc findetorheir lofethe neglectthercof: for thetra(hand tones thill fo hinder the 
excreafe of theirroots, thatthey will be halfe loft in the earth among the tones, which 
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