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a square plot, in another a round, in a third a diamond, and in 

 the fourth an ovall, then alongst the ascending bankes which are 

 on either side the staires, you mount into your severall gardens, 

 you shall make your physicke garden or places to plant your 

 physicke hearbes upon, according as the modell is most bravely 

 set forth by Oliver de Serves^ and as the late King of France 

 caused his physicke garden to be made in the Universitie of 

 Montpellier,! being all raised upon bankes or heights one above 

 another, some round, some square, in the manner of a goodly, 

 large, and well-trimmed Theatre as may be scene at this day to 

 the great admiration thereof. — Maison Rustique^ or, the Coimtrey 

 Farme. Compyled in the French Tongue by Charles Stevens, and 

 John Liebault, Doctors of Physicke. And translated into English 

 by Richard Surflet, Practitioner in Physicke. Now newly Reviewed, 

 Corrected, and Augmented, with divers large Additions, out of the 



(Serres, his Agriculture, '\ 



Vinet, his Maiso?i Champestre, j 

 Albyterio, in Spanish, 

 Grilli, in Italian, and other Authors. 

 And the Husbandrie of France, Italic, and Spaine, reconciled and 

 made to agree with ours here in England. By Gervase Markha7n, 

 london. Printed by Adam Islip for Joh^i Bill, 1616. 



— r'hj\l\r' — 



Potter, Glass- Painter, Chemist, Agriculturist and Engineer. BERNARD 



He designed the rustic grotto for the Gardens of the Constable Montmorency PALISSY 

 at the Chateau d'Econen: was employed at the founding of the Tuileries by (i5o°"^5°9)- 

 Queen Catherine de Mddicis in 1566, Philibert de t Orme being the Architect. 

 In the Gardens here, of which the design by Androuet du Cerceau is in exist' 

 ence, Palissy constructed his famous Grotto, as described in the following 

 extract. The Park at Chaitlnes was laid out after a plan resembling the 

 ' delectable Garden ' : Palissy was also employed at the Chateau de Nesle in 

 Picardy, Reux in Normandy, and possibly the Chateau de Madrid, in the Bois 

 de Boulogne. In the dedication of his book, ' Recepte Viritable,' to the Queen 

 Mother, he wrote : ^ II y a des choses escrites en ce livre qui pourront beau- 

 coup servir a V idification de vostre jardin de Chenonceux.'' 



' See illustration in de Serres's Thiatre (^Agriculture. 



