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mew-tide. Next to that is the musk-rose ; then 

 the strawberry-leaves dying, with a most excel- 

 lent cordial smell ; then the flower of the vines, 

 it is a little dust like the dust of a bent, which 

 grows upon the cluster in the first coming 

 forth ; then sweetbrier, then wallflowers, which 

 are very delightful to be set under a parlor or 

 lower chamber window ; then pinks and gilli- 

 flowers, specially the matted pink and clove 

 gilliflower ; then the flowers of the lime-tree ; 

 then the honeysuckles, so they be somewhat afar 

 off. Of bean-flowers I speak not, because they 

 are field-flowers ; but those which perfume the 

 air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, 

 but being trodden upon and crushed, are three 

 that is, burnet, wild thyme, and water-mints; 

 therefore you are to set whole alleys of them, to 

 have the pleasure when you walk or tread. 



For gardens (speaking of those which are in- 

 deed prince-like, as we have done of buildings), 

 the contents ought not well to be under thirty 

 acres of ground, and to be divided into three 

 parts ; a green in the entrance, a heath, or 

 desert, in the going forth, and the main garden 

 in the midst, besides alleys on both sides ; and 

 I like well that four acres of ground be assigned 

 to the green, six to the heath, four and four to 

 either side, and twelve to the main garden. 

 The green hath two pleasures : the one, because 



