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top. The garden was planted with apple-trees, 

 pears, and cherries. In the middle of the wall 

 opposite the terrace was a great aviary 30 feet 

 long, 14 broad, and 20 high ; and in the centre 

 of the garden a fountain of white marble rose 

 out of an octagonal basin, " wherein pleasantly 

 playing to and fro (were) carp, tench, bream, 

 and for varietee pearch and eel — a garden then 

 so appointed, as whearin aloft upon sweet 

 shadowed walks of terras, in heat of soomer, to 

 feel the pleasaunt whisking wynde above, or 

 delectable coolness of the fountain spring be- 

 neath, to taste of delicious strawberries, cherris, 

 and other fruites even from their stalks." 



Bacon's garden, which should be taken in 

 immediate connection with the palace of the 

 preceding essay, was to be divided into three 

 parts — a green, with a straight path across the 

 centre, and covered walks at the sides ; then 

 came the main garden, surrounded by an open 

 arcade, with carpenter's work, with an " entire 

 hedge of some 4 feet high above it," ornamented 

 with little turrets and figures. In the centre of 

 this garden was to be a mound, 2^ ^^^^ high, 

 and there was to be a banqueting-house, and 

 fountains and tanks ''finely paved," surrounded 

 with images, and " embellished with coloured 

 glasse and such things of lustre." Beyond this 

 was to be ''the heath" or wilderness, as it was 

 afterwards called, a thicket of sweet-briar and 

 honeysuckle, "and the ground set with violets. 



