"THE CURIOUS KNOTTED GARDEN" 77 



other work within the four-square parts is according 

 to every man's conceit. For there may be therein 

 walls either open or close, either public or private, 

 a maze or wilderness, a rock or mount with a foun- 

 tain in the midst to convey water to every part of 

 the garden either in pipes under the ground, or 

 brought by hand and emptied in^o large cisterns or 

 great Turkey jars placed in convenient places, 

 Arbors also being both graceful and necessary may 

 be appointed in such convenient places as the cor- 

 ners, or elsewhere, as may be most fit to serve both 

 for shadow and rest after walking. 



"To border the whole square to serve as a hedge 

 thereunto everyone taketh what liketh him best, as 

 either privet alone, or sweetbriar and whitethorn 

 enlaced together and roses of one, or two, or more 

 sorts, placed here and there amongst them. Some 

 also take lavender, rosemary, sage, southernwood, 

 lavender-cotton, or some such thing. Some again 

 plant Cornell trees and plash them, or keep them low 

 to form into a hedge. And some again take a low 

 prickly shrub that abideth always green called in 

 Latin Pyracantha, which in time will make an ever- 

 green hedging, or border, and when it beareth fruit, 

 which are red berries like unto hawthorn berries, 



