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flowers, being withal sweet and sightly ; part of 

 which heaps to be with standards of little 

 bushes pricked upon their top, and part with- 

 out ; the standards to be roses, juniper, holly, 

 barberries (but here and there, because of the 

 smell of their blossom), red currants, gooseber- 

 ries, rosemary, bays, sweetbrier, and such like : 

 but these standards to be kept with cutting, that 

 they grow not out of course. 



For the side grounds, you are to fill them with 

 variety of alleys, private, to give a full shade ; 

 some of them, wheresover the sun be. You are 

 to frame some of them likewise for shelter, that 

 when the wind blows sharp you may walk as in 

 a gallery ; and those alleys must be likewise 

 hedged at both ends, to keep out the wind ; and 

 these closer alleys must be ever 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 should be generally 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. 



