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49. bullaces. Wild plum-trees, with fruit larger and more 

 palatable than sloes. 



50. hollyoaks. Hollyhocks. 



53. ver perpetuum. Everlasting spring; or perpetual growth 

 in your garden something fresh every month. 



59. fast flowers of their smells. Flowers that retain their 

 smell unless you inhale it closely. (So 'fast colours' are 

 those that will not wash out or run.) 



67. Bartholomew-tide. August 24. 



70. bent. Bent-grass. 



96. go in front upon. Advance towards. 



102. a covert alley upon carpenter's work. A pergola ; a covered 

 walk between and under growing plants trained over trellis- 

 work. 



104. knots. Patterns or designs ; perhaps tufts or crests. 



110. a stately arched hedge, c. A tall continuous hedge, 

 adorned with arched openings at intervals of six feet; the 

 hedge to rise four feet above the openings ; a small turret to 

 crown each arch all round the garden, and a figure with 

 ornaments of glass and gilding to alternate with the turrets 

 half-way between the arches ; the hedge to rise from a gently 

 sloping bank six feet high, and thus to be of a uniform height 

 of twenty feet on all the four sides. [Note that the arched 

 openings are some ten feet high.] 



117. a belly enough lo receive a cage of birds. A round or pro- 

 tuberant cavity large enough, &c. [But see the paragraph, 

 infra, on the subject of aviaries.] 



121. a bank, not steep but gently slope. That is, sloping or 

 slanting very gradually. For the use of ' slope ' as an adjective, 

 see Milton's Comus, 1. 98, 'The slope sun his upward beam 

 Shoots against the dusky pole.' 



126. deliver you. Land you. 



130. letting your prospect. Preventing or forbidding your 

 outlook. 



136. too busy or full of work. Crowded with elaborate 

 devices. ' Busy ' means ' on (or in) which much activity (or 

 labour) has been expended '. 



137. images cut out in juniper, c. Topiary work, as it was 

 called ; mainly practised upon box, yew, and juniper. 



