62 THE SHAKESPEARE GARDEN 



height, leaving the wall of the enclosure breast high, 

 to look abroad into the fields. 



"For the heath, which was the third part of our 

 plot, I wish it to be framed, as much as may be, to 

 a natural wildness. Trees, I would have none in it; 

 but some thickets made only of sweetbrier and 

 honeysuckle and some wild vine amongst; and the 

 ground set with violets, strawberries and primroses; 

 for these are sweet and prosper in the shade; and 

 these to be in the heath, here and there, not in any 

 order. I also like little heaps in the nature of mole; 

 hills (such as are in wild heaths) to be set, some 

 with wild thyme, some with pinks, some with 

 germander that gives a good flower to the eye ; some 

 with periwinkle, some with violets, some with straw- 

 berries, some with cowslips, some with daisies, some 

 with red roses, some with lilium convallium* some 

 with sweet williams, red, some with bear's foot 2 and 

 the like low flowers, being withal sweet and sightly. 

 Part of which heaps to be with standards of little 

 bushes pricked upon their top and put without. The 

 standards to be roses, juniper, holly, barberries (but 

 here and there, because of the smell of their blos- 

 som), red currants, gooseberries, rosemary, bays, 



1 Lily-of-the-valley. 

 'Auricula. 



