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Four many, as never to be without them from May to 



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 to be As to the size of a garden, which will perhaps, 



intime >g rowextrava g antamon gus,I thinkfrom 

 five or four, to seven or eight acres, is as much 

 as any gentleman need design, and will furnish 

 as much of all that is expected from it, as any 

 nobleman will have occasion to use in his family. 

 In every garden four things are necessary to 

 beprovided for, flowers, fruit, shade, and water; 

 and whoever lays outagarden without all these, 

 must not pretend it in any perfection : it ought 

 to lie to the best parts of the house, or to those 

 of the master's commonest use, so as to be but 

 like one of the rooms out of which you step into 

 another. The part of your garden next your 

 house(besides the walks that go round it) should 

 be a parterre for flowers, or grass-plots border- 

 ed with flowers; or if, according to the newest 

 mode, it be cast all into grass-plots and gravel- 

 walks, the dryness of these should be relieved 

 with fountains, and the plainness of those with 

 statues; otherwise, if large, they have an ill ef- 

 fect upon the eye. However, the part next the 

 house should be open, and no other fruit but up- 

 on the walls. If this take up one half of the gar- 



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