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desired as closing out the world at the orchard's 

 end. 



" One thousand of delytes are in an orchard, 

 and sooner shall I be weary than I can reckon 

 the last part of that pleasure which one that 

 hath and loves an orchard may find therein," 

 wrote William Lawson three hundred years 

 ago. And he would have men follow the 

 custom which yet obtains in the Tyrol, and 

 order all newly married pairs to plant trees. 

 A very paradise his orchard must have been, 

 for he would have in it beside apples and 

 cherries, medlars and apricots, bees, "cleanly 

 and innocent bees," and he would have birds 

 and running water " And in mine opinion I 

 could highly recommend your Orchard if 

 thorow it or hard by it should runne a pleasant 

 River with silver stremes. . . . And one chief 

 grace that adorns an Orchard I cannot let 

 slip, a broode of nightingales, who, with 

 their several notes and themes, with a strong 

 delightsome voyse out of a weak body will 

 bear you company night and day." 



I think Izaak Walton would have loved this 

 garden, and Sir Thomas Overbury and Sir 

 Thomas Browne, who were I am sure good 



