OF GARDENING IN 1685 



den, the other should be fruit-trees, unless some Youth's 

 grove for shade lie in the middle. If it take up a ^^ e>s 

 third part only, then the next third may be dwarf- pleasure 

 trees, and the last standard-fruit; or else the 

 second part fruit-trees, and the third all sorts of 

 winter-greens, which provide for all seasons of 

 the year. 



I will not enter upon any account of flowers, 

 having only pleased myself with seeing or smell- 

 ing them, and not troubled myself with the care, 

 which is more the ladies' part than the men's; 

 but the success is wholly in the gardener. . . . 



For my own part, as the country life, and this 

 part of it more particularly, were the inclina- 

 tion of my youth itself, so they are the pleasure 

 of my age ; and I can truly say, that among many 

 great employments that have fallen to my share, 

 I have never asked or sought for any one of 

 them, but often endeavoured to escape from 

 them, into the ease and freedom of a private 

 scene, where a man may go his own way and 

 his own pace, in the common paths or circles 

 of life. 



Inter cuncta leges et percunctabere doctos 

 Qua ratione queas traducere leniter aevum, 

 Quid curas minuat,quidtetibireddatamicum, 

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