Sir TKHfllfam temple 



and therefore, instead of being curious in 

 others, he had only been so in the sorts of that, 

 whereof he had so many, as never to be without 

 them from May to the end of September. 



As to the size of a garden, which will, per- 

 haps, in time, grow extravagant among us, I 

 think from four or five to seven or eight acres 

 is as much as any gentleman need design, and 

 will furnish as much of all that is expected 

 from it, as any nobleman will have occasion to 

 use in his family. 



In every garden four things are necessary to 

 be provided for : flowers, fruit, shade, and 

 water ; and whoever lays out a garden, without 

 all these, must not pretend in it any perfection ; 

 it ought to lie to the best parts of the house, or 

 to those of the master's commonest use, so as to 

 be but like one of the rooms out of which you 

 step into another. The part of your garden next 

 your house (besides the walks that go round it) 

 should be a parterre for flowers, or grass-plots 

 bordered with flowers; or if, according to the 

 newest mode, it be cast all into grass-plots and 

 gravel walks, the dryness of these should be 

 relieved with fountains, and the plainness of 

 those with statues ; otherwise, if large, they 

 have an ill effect upon the eye. However, the 

 part next the house should be open, and no 

 other fruit but upon the walls. If this take up 



