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round it) should be a parterre for flowers, or grass- 

 plots bordered with flowers ; or if, according to the 

 newest mode, it be cast all into grass-plots and gravel- 

 walks, the dryness of these should be relieved with 

 fountains, and the plainness of those with statues ; 

 otherwise, if large, they have an ill effect upon the eye. 

 However, the part next the house should be open, and 

 no other fruit but upon the walls. If this take up one 

 half of the garden, the other should be fruit-trees, 

 unless some grove for shade lie in the middle. If it 

 take up a third part only, then the next third may be 

 dwarf-trees, and the last standard-fruit ; or else the 

 second part fruit-trees, and the third all sorts of winter- 

 greens, which provide for all seasons of the year. 



I will not enter upon any account of flowers, having 

 only pleased myself with seeing or smelling them, and 

 not troubled myself with the care, which is more the 

 ladies' part than the men's ; but the success is wholly in 

 the gardener. For fruits, the best we have in England, 

 or I believe can ever hope for, are of peaches, the 

 white and red Maudlin, the Minion, the Chevreuse, the 

 Ramboullet, the Musk, the Admirable, which is late ; 

 all the rest are either varified by names, or not to be 

 named with these, nor worth troubling a garden, in my 

 opinion. Of the pavies or hard peaches, I know none 



