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planted with laurels and other greens ; one pathed 

 or brick- walke in the middle, leading to the middle 

 of the house-front, with a long grass-plot on each 

 hand. 



The bordures of your kitchen-garden, round by 

 the walkes, may be boxed with thyme, lavender, 

 hysop, rue, &c., the next with parsley, straw-berries, 

 violets, July-flowers, &c., cherrie-gardens and phy- 

 sick-gardens, with sweet-brier often cut, or box cut 

 three times per annum, in April, June and August, 

 remembering to cut their roots at the inside every 

 second year, that they exhaust not the strength or 

 nourishment of the flowers or herbs. But that which 

 I preferre for flower-gardens above all, is dwarf- 

 juniper, raised from seed and planted thus : when 

 the ground is levelled, measure out the bordures 

 (but raise them not above the walkes, except you 

 minde to lay gravel), stretch a line, and, with the 

 edge of the rule, mark along thereby, and therein 

 set the young slips of box, or the young plants of 

 juniper, attwo years' growth ; then prepare the bor- 

 dures, by delving in consumed manure of cows and 

 sheep, covering on a little lime, topt with a little sand 

 to lye all summer, kept clean from weeds by hawing. 

 At the beginning of winter delve and mix together, 



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