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one half of the garden, the other should be 

 fruit-trees, unless some grove for shade lie in 

 the middle. If it take up a third part only, 

 then the next third may be dwarf- trees, and the 

 last standard fruit ; or else the second part fruit- 

 trees, and the third all sorts of winter-greens, 

 which provide for all seasons of the year. 



I will not enter upon any account of flowers, 

 having only pleased myself with seeing or 

 smelling them, and not troubled myself with 

 the care, which is more the ladies' part than 

 the men's ; but the success is wholly in the 

 gardener. For fruits, the best we have in 

 England, or, I believe, can ever hope for, are, 

 of peaches, the white and red maudlin, the 

 minion, the chevereuse, the ramboullet, the 

 musk, the admirable, which is late ; all the rest 

 are either varied by names, or not to be named 

 with these, nor worth troubling a garden, in my 

 opinion. Of the pavies or hard peaches, I know 

 none good here but the Newington, nor will 

 that easily hang till it is full ripe. The forward 

 peaches are to be esteemed only because they 

 are early, but should find room in a good gar- 

 den, at least the white and brown nutmeg, the 

 Persian, and the violet musk. The only good 

 nectarines are the murry and the French ; of 

 these there are two sorts one very round, and 

 the other something long but the round is the 



