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For the main garden I do not deny but there 

 should be some fair alleys ranged on both sides, 

 with fruit-trees, and some pretty tufts of fruit- 

 trees and arbors with seats, set in some decent 

 order ; but these to be by no means set too 

 thick, but to leave the main garden so as it be 

 not close, but the air open and free. For as for 

 shade, I would have you rest upon the alleys of 

 the side grounds, there to walk, if you be dis- 

 posed, in the heat of the year or day ; but to 

 make account that the main garden is for the 

 more temperate parts of the year, and in the heat 

 of summer for the morning and the evening or 

 overcast days. 



For aviaries, I like them not, except they be 

 of that largeness as they may be turfed, and 

 have living plants and bushes set in them ; that 

 the birds may have more scope and natural 

 nestling, and that no foulness appear in the 

 floor of the aviary. 



So I have made a platform of a princely gar- 

 den, partly by precept, partly by drawing ; not 

 a model, but some general lines of it ; and in 

 this I have spared for no cost ; but it is nothing 

 for great princes, that for the most part, taking 

 advice with workmen, with no less cost, set their 

 things together ; and sometimes add statues and 

 such things, for state and magnificence, but 

 nothing to the true pleasure of a garden. 



