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trees, and arbors 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 alleys of the side grounds, there 

 to walk, if you be disposed, in the heat of the year, 

 or day, but to make account that the main garden is 

 for the more temperate parts of the year and in the 

 heat of the summer for the morning and the evening, 

 or overcast days. 



"For the side grounds you are to fill them with 

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

 of them wheresoever the sun be. You are to frame 

 some of them likewise for shelter, that when the 

 wind blows sharp you may walk as in a gallery. 

 And these alleys must be, likewise, hedged at both 

 ends to keep out the wind, and these closer alleys 

 must be ever finely graveled 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 

 walls as in ranges. And this would 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 have a mount of some pretty 



