GARDENS OF THE STUARTS 



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middle part containing a large gravel walk adorned on 

 each side with a border of your most select plants, 

 shrubs, and flowers 

 between those bor- 

 ders and the pali- 

 sades, green walks 

 with borders next the 

 palisades, on which 

 you may plant per- 

 ennial greens and 

 your more ordinary 

 plants and flowers. 



" The other two par- 

 titions of your square 

 you may convert the 

 one of them into an 

 orchard the other in- 

 to a kitchen garden, 

 which will be no 

 small ornament to your middle garden of pleasure. 



" But if you are willing to celebrate so fair a spot of 

 ground as the whole square to the delights of flora, 

 make of them grass-plots leaving only borders on their 

 confines for your variety of plants. 



" A draught of the square garden I have given here, illustration 

 which may be varied as the designer pleaseth, each 



