The ordering of the Garden of Pleafure. 



doth not calily breake or fpoile without much iniury, and keepeth vp a knot tor a very 

 long time in his due proportion : but in my opinion, the Leade is ouer-hot for Sum- 

 mer, and ouer-cold tor Winter. Others doe take Oaken inch boords, and (awing them 

 foure or Hue inches broad, do hold vp their knot therewith : but in that thefe boordes 

 cannot bee drawne compalle into any fmall fcantling, they mult ferue rather tor long 

 outright beds, or fuch knots as haue no rounds, halfe rounds, or compaflings in them. 

 And belides, thefe boordes are not long lafting, becaufe they Itand continually in the 

 weather, efpecially the ends where they are fattened together will fooneft rot and pe- 

 rilli, and fo the whole tbrme will be fpoyled. To preuent that fault, fome others haue 

 chofen the (hanke bones of Sheep, which after they haue beene well cleanfed and 

 boyled, to take out the fat from them, are ftucke into the ground the fmall end downe- 

 wards, and the knockle head vpwards, and thus being fet fide to fide, or end to end 

 clofe together, they fet out the whole knot therewith, which heads of bones although 

 they looke not white the firit yeare, yet alter they haue abiden fome frofts and heates 

 will become white, and prettily grace out the ground : but this inconuenience is inci- 

 dent to them, that the Winter frolts will raife them out of the ground oftentimes, and 

 if by chance the knockle head of any doe breake, or be Itrucke off with any ones foot, 

 &cc. going by, from your (tore, that lyeth by you of the fame fort, fet another in the 

 place, hauing lirit taken away the broken peece : although thefe will lalt long in forme 

 and order, yet becaufe they arc but bones many miflike them, and indeed I know but 

 few that vie them. Tyles are alfo vfed by fome, which by reafon they may bee 

 brought compare into any fa(hion many are pleafed with them, who doe not take the 

 whole Tyle at length, but halfe Tyles, and other broken peeces fet fomewhat deepe 

 into the ground, that they may ftand fait, and thefe take vp but little roome, and keepe 

 vp the edge of the beds and knots in a pretty comely manner, but they are often out of 

 trame, in that many of them are broken and fpoiled, both with mens feete pafling by, 

 the weather and weight of the earth beating them downe and breaking them, but e- 

 fpecially the frofts in Winter doe fo cracke off their edges, both at the toppes and 

 fides that Itand clofe one vnto another, that they muft be continually tended and re- 

 paired with frelh and found ones put in the place of them that are broken or decayed. 

 And laltly (for it is the latell inuention) round whitifh or blewifh pebble stones, of 

 fome reafonable proportion and bignefle, neither too great nor too little, haue beene 

 vfed by fome to be fet, or rather in a manner but laide vpon the ground to fafhion out 

 the traile or knot, or all along by the large grauelly walke fides to fet out the walke, and 

 maketh a pretty handfome mew, and becaule the (tones will not decay with the iniu- 

 ries of any time or weather, and will be placed in their places againe, if any Humid be 

 thrult out by any accident, as alfo that their fight is fo confpicuous vpon the ground, 

 efpecially it they be not hid with the Itore of herbes growing in the knot; is accounted 

 both tor durability, beauty of the fight, handfomnefle in the worke, and eafe in the 

 working and charge, to be of all other dead materials the chiefeft. And thus, Gen- 

 tlemen, I haue (hewed you all the varieties that I know are vsed by any in our Coun- 

 trey, that are worth the reciting (but as for the fafhion of lawe-bones, vfed by fome 

 in the Low Countries, and other places beyond the Seas, being too grofle and bale, I 

 make no mention ot them) among which euery one may take what pleafeth him beft, 

 or may molt fitly be had, or may belt agree with the ground or knot. Moreouer, all 

 thefe herbes that ferue for borderings, doe ferue as well to be fet vpon the ground of a 

 leuelled knot ; that is, where the allies and foot-pathes are of the fame leuell with the 

 knot, as they may ferue alfo for the railed knot, that is, where the beds of the knot are 

 railed higher than the allies ; but both Leade, Boordes, Bones, and Tyles, are only for 

 the raifed ground, be it knot or beds. The pebble (tones againe are onely for the le- 

 uelled ground, becaufe they are so (hallow, that as I faid before, they rather lye vpon 

 the earth than are thrult any way into it. All this that I haue here fet downe, you muft 

 vnderttand is proper for the knots alone of a Garden. But for to border the whole 

 fquare or knot about, to ferue as a hedge thereunto, euery one taketh what liketh him 

 belt; as either Priuet alone, or fweete Bryer, and white Thorne enterlaced together, 

 and Rofes of one, or two, or more forts placed here and there amonglt them. Some 

 alfo take Lauander, Rofemary, Sage, Southernwood, Lauander Cotton, or fome fuch 

 other thing. Some againe plant Cornell Trees, and pla(h them, or keepe them lowe, to 



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