32 BACON'S PLAN OF A GARDEN 



garden. But, because the alley will be long, and (in 

 great heat of the year or day) you ought not to buy the 

 shade in the garden by going in the sun through the 100 

 green, therefore you are of either side the green to 

 plant a covert alley upon carpenter's work about 

 twelve feet in height, by which you may go in shade 

 into the garden. As for the making of knots or 

 figures with divers coloured earths that they may lie 

 under the windows of the House on that side on which 

 the garden stands, they be but toys : you may see as 

 good sights many times in tarts. 



The main The garden is best to be square, encompassed on all 

 HefyT the ^ our s ^ es w ^k a ^tely arched hedge, the arches no 

 to be upon pillars of carpenter's work of some ten feet 

 high and six feet broad, and the spaces between of 

 the same dimensions with the breadth of the arch. 

 Over the arches let there be an entire hedge of some 

 four feet high, framed also upon carpenter's work, 

 and upon the upper hedge over every arch a little 

 turret with a belly enough to receive a cage of birds, 

 and over every space between the arches some other 

 little figure with broad plates of round coloured glass 

 gilt for the sun to play upon. But this hedge I intend 120 

 to be raised upon a bank, not steep but gently slope, 

 of some six feet set all with flowers ; also I understand 

 that this square of the garden should not be the whole 

 breadth of the ground, but to leave on either side 

 ground enough for diversity of side alleys, unto which 

 the two covert alleys of the green may deliver you. 

 But there must be no alleys with hedges at either 

 end of this great enclosure, not at the hither end 

 for letting your prospect upon this fair hedge from 

 the green, nor at the farther end for letting your iso 



