ADVICE TO SIR GEORGE VILLIERS. 435 



them is very profitable, as well as pleasurable ; cyder 

 and perry are notable beverages in sea voyages. 



4. Gardens are also very profitable, if planted 

 with artichokes, roots, and such other things as are 

 fit for food ; whence they be called kitchen gardens, 

 and that very properly. 



5. The planting of hop-yards, sowing of woad 

 and rape seed, are found very profitable for the 

 planters, in places apt for them, and consequently 

 profitable for the kingdom, which for divers years 

 was furnished with them from beyond the seas. 



6. The planting and preserving of woods, espe 

 cially of timber, is not only profitable, but commend 

 able, therewith to furnish posterity, both for building 

 and shipping. 



7. The kingdom would be much improved by 

 draining of drowned lands, and gaining that in from 

 the overflowing of salt waters and the sea, and from 

 fresh waters also. 



8. And many of those grounds would be exceed 

 ing fit for dairies, which, being well housewived, are 

 exceeding commodious. 



9. Much good land might be gained from forests 

 and chases, more remote from the king s access, and 

 from other commonable places, so as always there be 

 a due care taken, that the poor commoners have no 

 injury by such improvement, 



10. The making of navigable rivers would be very 

 profitable ; they would be as so many in-draughts of 

 wealth, by conveying of commodities with ease from 

 place to place. 



