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withal sweet and sightly ; part of which heaps to be 

 with standards of little bushes pricked upon their 

 top, and part without, the standards to be roses, 



oo juniper, holly, berberries (but here and there, because 

 of the smell of their blossom), red currants, goose- 

 berries, rosemary, bays, sweetbriar, and such like, but 

 these standards to be kept with cutting that they grow 

 not out of course. 



For the side grounds, you are to fill them with The Side 

 variety of alleys private, to give a full shade, some 

 of them wheresoever the sun be ; you are to frame and 

 some of them likewise for shelter, that, when the-P^ 05 * 

 wind blows sharp, you may walk as in a gallery. 



10 And those alleys must be likewise hedged at both 

 ends to keep out the wind; and these closer alleys 

 must be ever finely gravelled, and no grass because of 

 going wet. In many of these alleys likewise you are 

 to set fruit-trees of all sorts, as well upon the wall as 

 in ranges ; and this should be generally observed that 

 the borders wherein you plant your fruit-trees be fair, 

 and large, and low (and not steep), and set with fine 

 flowers (but thin and sparingly, lest they deceive the 

 trees). At the end of both the side grounds I would 



20 have a mount of some pretty height, leaving the wall 

 of the enclosure breast-high, to look abroad into the 

 fields. 



For the main garden, I do not deny but there should The Main 

 be some fair alleys ranged on both sides, with fruit- ^^ to 

 trees, and some pretty tufts of fruit-trees, and arbours and free. 

 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 



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