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fruit, and thirty square yards for flower-garden for a nobleman, 

 for a " private gentleman 40 square yards fruit and 20 

 flower, is enough ; a wall all round of brick 9 feet high, 

 and a 5 feet wall to divide the fruit and flower gardens, 

 or else pales painted a brick colour. The large square beds 

 to be railed with wooden rails painted, or box-trees or 

 pallisades for dwarf trees." Most of the designs he gives are 

 squares, with T or L shaped beds, fitting into the angles 

 and along the walls of the garden, these borders to be about 

 three yards wide. In the corners of each bed were to be 

 planted " the best crown Imperials, lilies Martagons and such 

 tall flowers, in the middle of the square beds great tufts of 

 pionies, and round about them several sorts of cyclamen, the 

 rest (of the beds) with Daffodils, Hyacinths, and such like. 

 The streight beds are fit for the best Tulips, where account 

 may be kept of them. Ranunculus and Anemonies also require 

 particular beds — the rest may be set all over with the more 

 ordinary sorts of Tulips, Frittilarias, bulbed Iris and all 

 other kinds of good roots. ... It will be requisite to have 

 in the middle of one side of the flower garden a handsom 

 octangular somer-house roofed everyway and finely painted 

 with Landskips and other conceits furnished with seats about 

 and a table in the middle which serveth not only for delight and 

 entertainment but for many other necessary purposes as to 

 put the roots of Tulips and other flowers in, as they are 

 taken up upon papers, with the names upon them untill they 

 be dried, that they may be wrapped up and put in boxes. 

 You must yearly make your hot bed for raising of choice 

 annuals, for the raising of new varieties of divers kinds. 

 These gardens will not be maintained and kept well furnished 

 without a Nurcery, as well of stocks for fruits as of flowers 

 and seedlings where many pretty conclusions may be practised." 

 Rea's description shows what great attention was paid to the 

 culture of bulbs, especially tulips, in the average small garden. 

 " Tulip fever " was at its height, and although it never reached 

 such a climax in England as it did in Holland, the flowers were 

 justly popular. Fifty years after the hrst tulip was seen in 

 Augsburg (1559) the flower was well known and largelv 



