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thickets of sweetbrier, honeysuckle, and grape-vines, 

 and mounds of earth, covered with various cul- 

 tivated flowers. It was a tangle 

 not planted in any order, and not 

 containing trees like the later 

 wildernesses, which were devel- 

 oped by Le Notre into the famous 

 bosquets at Versailles. 



The kitchen garden in its 

 way was also made beautiful. 

 " Though your garden for flowers 

 doth in a sort peculiarly challenge itself, a profit and Theidtchem 

 exquisite form to the eyes, yet you may not altogether 

 neglect this where your herbs for the pot do grow. 

 And, therefore, some here make comely borders with 

 the herbs aforesaid. The rather, because roses and 

 lavender yield much profit. The beds need not here 

 be raised. You place your herbs of biggest growth 

 by walls, or in borders, and the lowest in the midst." 



As yet the distinction between an orchard and a The orchard, 

 garden was not very marked. Lawson describes them 

 collectively in his " Orchard and Garden," which was 

 written in the Elizabethan spirit although it did not 

 appear until 1618. It is full of practical directions as 

 well as charming sentiments. 



" The very works of and in an Orchard and Garden 

 are better than the ease and rest of and from other 



