"THE CURIOUS KNOTTED GARDEN" 63 



sweetbrier and the like. But these standards to be 

 kept with cutting that they grow not out of course. 



"For the ordering of the ground within the great 

 hedge, I leave it to variety of device; advising, 

 nevertheless, that whatsoever form you cast it into, 

 first it be not too busy or full of work. Wherein 

 I, for my part, do not like images cut out in juniper, 

 or ether garden stuff they be for children. Little 

 low hedges, round like welts, with some pretty pyra- 

 mids, I like well, and in some places fair columns 

 upon frames of carpenter's work. I would also have 

 the alleys spacious and fair. You may have closer 

 alleys upon the side grounds, but none in the main 

 garden. I wish also in the very middle a fair mount 

 with three ascents and alleys, enough for four to 

 walk abreast, which I would have to be perfect 

 circles without any bulwarks or embossments, and 

 the whole mount to be thirty foot high; and some 

 fine banqueting-house with some chimneys neatly 

 cast and without too much glass. 



"As for the making of knots, or figures, with divers 

 colored earths that they may lie under the windows 

 of the house, on that side which the garden stands, 

 they be but toys. You may see as good sights many 

 times in tarts." 



Fountains Bacon considered "a great beauty and 



