OF GARDENS BY LORD BACON 



strawberries, and primroses. For these are Flowers 

 sweet, and prosper in the shade. And these to subtly* 

 be in the heath, here and there, not in any order. 

 I like also little heaps, in the nature of molehills 

 (such as are in wild heaths), to be set, some with 

 wild thyme; some with pinks; some with ger- 

 mander, that gives a good flower to the eye ; 

 some with peri winkle; some with violets; some 

 with strawberries ; some with cowslips ; some 

 with daisies; some with red roses ; some with 

 lilium convallium; some with sweet-williams 

 red ; some with bear's-foot ; and the like low 

 flowers, being withal sweet, and sightly. Part 

 of which heaps to be with standards, of little 

 bushes, pricked upon their top, and part with- 

 out. The standards to be roses; juniper; holly ; 

 barberries (but here and there, because of the 

 smell of their blossom); red currants ; goose- 

 berry; rosemary; bays; sweet-brier; and such 

 like. But these standards to be kept with cut- 

 ting, that they grow not out of course. 



For the side grounds, you are to fill them 

 with variety of alleys, private, to give a full 

 shade; some of them, wheresoever the sun be. 

 You are to frame some of them likewise for 

 shelter, that, when the wind blows sharp, you 

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