BOOKOFOLD-WORLDGARDENS 



English the more northern climates, as they suffer little 

 * by heat, make little provision against it, and 

 are careless of shade, and seldom curious in 

 fountains. Good statues are in the reach of 

 few men, and common ones are generally and 

 justly despised or neglected. But no sorts of 

 good fruits or flowers, being natives of the cli- 

 mates, or usual among us (nor indeed the 

 best sort of plants, herbs, salads for our kit- 

 chen-gardens themselves); and the best fruits 

 not ripening without the advantage of walls or 

 palisadoes, by reflection of the faint heat we 

 receive from the sun, our gardens are made of 

 smaller compass, seldom exceeding four, six, 

 or eight acres ; enclosed with walls, and laitf. 

 out in a manner wholly for advantage of fruits, 

 flowers, and the product of kitchen-gardens in 

 all sorts of herbs, salads, plants and legumes, 

 for the common use of tables. 



These are usually the gardens of England 

 and Holland, as the first sort are those of Italy, 

 and were so of old. In the more temperate 

 parts of France, and in Brabant (where I take 

 gardening to be at its greatest height) they are 

 composed of both sorts, the extent more spa- 

 cious than ours ; part laid out for flowers, 



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