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His " Paradisus," wc Icani from the dedication, [was written 

 long before it was published. — " Some through an evil dispo- 

 sition" charged him as having obtained the work from sonui 

 other person — a charge we may believe to' be without founda- 

 tion, as we have no mention of it but in his own preface. 



In the first Chapter he considers, " The situation of a Gar-. 

 den of pleasure, (i. e. a Flower Garden,) with the nature of 

 soyles, and how to mend the defects, &c." Sheltered from the 

 North ; and not on the East, or ou the West side of the house, 

 not on moorish ground, or near any manufactory, that may 

 taint the air with smoko, " especially of Sea Coals which of 

 all others is the worst, as our City of London can give proof 

 sutticieut, wherein neither herb nor tree will long prosper, nor 

 hath done ever since the use of Sea Coals began to be frequent 

 therein." — Black mould the best soil, stiff clay the worst.— In 

 the directions for manuring and mixing soils, he is concise and 

 judicious. — Chap. 2. " The frame or forme of a Garden of 

 delight or pleasure." — The plans he gives are the very quint- 

 essence of regularity and formality. — One remark is Judicious, 

 and is confirmed by modern approbation, " the fairer and 

 larger your aUics and walks be, the more grace your Garden 

 shall have" — his plans however are in strange opposition to 

 this rule for to have as many as are represented in them, they 

 must be gmall and mean. — Chap. 3. Of the Herbes, &c, of 

 which the borders of the beds may be formed. — Germander 

 used before his time to be used for this purpose, as Thrift was 

 chic/ly then. Germander was still more in use, because " tiie 

 cuttings are much used as a strawing herb;! for houses." 

 — Hyssop, Marjory, Savory, and Tliyme, were emyloyed for 

 the purpose, but Lavender Cotton was in greater request "of 

 late dales" being rare, novel, and for the most part but in the 

 gardens of great persons'' — Juniper and Yew were also used, 

 but he recommends above all the Box, thougli it was " only 

 received into the Gardens of the curious." — Of dead materials 



