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men, and common ones are generally and justly 

 despised or neglected. But no sorts of good 

 fruits or flowers, being natives of the climates, 

 or usual among us (nor indeed the best sort of 

 plants, herbs, salads for our kitchen-gardens 

 themselves), and the best fruits, not ripening 

 without the advantage of walls and palisadoes, 

 by reflection of the faint heat we receive from 

 the sun, our gardens are made of smaller com- 

 pass, seldom exceeding four, six, or eight acres ; 

 enclosed with walls, and laid out in a manner 

 wholly for advantage of fruits, flowers, and the 

 product of kitchen -gardens in all sorts of herbs, 

 salads, plants, and legumes, for the common 

 use of tables. 



These are usually the gardens of England and 

 Holland, as the first sort are those of Italy, and 

 were so of old. In the more temperate parts of 

 France, and in Brabant (where I take gardening 

 to be at its greatest height), they are composed 

 of both sorts, the extent more spacious than 

 ours ; part laid out for flowers, others for fruits ; 

 some standards, some against walls or palisa- 

 does, some for forest trees, and groves for 

 shade, some parts wild, some exact ; and foun- 

 tains much in request among them. 



But after so much ramble into ancient times t 

 and remote places, to return home and consider 

 the present way and humor of our gardening in 



