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Fragrant bent, which grows upon the cluster, in the first 

 r * coming forth. Then sweet-brier. Then wall- 

 flowers, which are very delightful, to be set un- 

 der a parlour, or lower chamber window. Then 

 pinks, and gillyflowers, specially the matted 

 pink, and clove gillyflower. Then the flowers 

 of the lime tree. Then the honeysuckles, so 

 they be somewhat afar off. Of bean flowers I 

 speak not, because they are field flowers. But 

 those which perfume the air most delightfully, 

 not passed by as the rest, but being trodden 

 upon and crushed, are three : that is burnet, 

 wild thyme, and water mints. Therefore, you 

 are to set whole alleys of them, to have the 

 pleasure when you walk or tread. 



For gardens (speaking of those which are 

 indeed prince-like, as we have done of build- 

 ings), the contents ought not well to be under 

 thirty acres of ground ; and to be divided into 

 three parts: a green in the entrance; a heath 

 or desert in the going forth ; and the main garden 

 in the midst; besides alleys, on both sides. And 

 I like well, that four acres ofgroundbe assigned 

 to the green ; six to the heath; four and four to 

 either side; and twelve to the main garden. The 

 green hath two pleasures; the one, because no- 



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