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The main may walk as in a gallery. And those alleys must 

 should be likewise hedged, at both ends, to keep out 



have fair the wind ; and these closer alleys must be ever 

 ys finely gravelled, and no grass, because of going 

 wet. In many of these alleys, likewise, you are 

 to set fruit trees of all sorts ; as well upon the 

 walls, as in ranges. And this would be gener- 

 ally observed, that the borders, wherein you 

 plant your fruit trees, be fair and large, and low, 

 and not steep ; and set with fine flowers, but 

 thin and sparingly, lest they deceive the trees. 

 At the end of both the side grounds, I would 

 have a mount of some pretty height, leaving 

 the wall of the enclosure breast-high, to look 

 abroad into the fields. 



For the main garden, I do not deny but there 

 should be some fair alleys, ranged on both sides 

 with fruit trees ; and some pretty tufts of fruit 

 trees, and arbours with seats, set in some decent 

 order ; but these to be by no means set too 

 thick ; but to leave the main garden so as it be 

 not close, but the air open and free. For as for 

 shade, I would have you rest upon the alleys 

 of the side grounds, there to walk, if you be 

 disposed, in the heat of the year, or day ; but 

 to make account that the main garden is for 



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