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a square plot, in another a round, in a third a diamond, and in 

 the fourth an ovall, then alongst the ascending bankes which are 

 on either side the staires, you mount into your severall gardens, 

 you shall make your physicke garden or places to plant your 

 physicke hearbes upon, according as the modell is most bravely 

 set forth by Oliver de Serres, and as the late King of France 

 caused his physicke garden to be made in the Universitie of 

 Montpellier, 1 being all raised upon bankes or heights one above 

 another, some round, some square, in the manner of a goodly, 

 large, and well-trimmed Theatre as may be scene at this day to 

 the great admiration thereof. Maison Rustique, or, the Countrey 

 Farme. Compyled in the French Tongue by Charles Stevens, and 

 John Liebault, Doctors of Physicke. And translated into English 

 by Richard Surflet, Practitioner in Physicke. Now newly Reviewed, 

 Corrected, and Augmented, with divers large Additions, out of the 



(Serres, his Agriculture, \ 



Vinet, his Maison Champestre, J 

 Albyterio, in Spanish, 

 Grilli, in Italian, and other Authors. 



And the Husbandrie of France, Italie, and Spaine, reconciled and 

 made to agree with ours here in England. By Gervase Markham, 

 London. Printed by Adam Islip for John Bill, 1616. 



Potter, Glass- Painter, Chemist, Agriculturist arid Engineer. BERNARD 



He designed the rustic grotto for the Gardens of the Constable Montmorency PALISSY 

 at the Chateau d"Econen: was employed at the founding of the Tuileries by 

 Queen Catherine de Me'dicis in 1566, Philibert de FOrme being the Architect. 

 In the Gardens here, of which the design by Androuet du Cerceau is in exist- 

 ence, Palissy constructed his famous Grotto, as described in the following 

 extract. The Park at Chaulnes was laid out after a plan resembling the 

 ' delectable Garden ' : Palissy was also employed at the Chateari de Nesle in 

 Picardy, Reux in Normandy, and possibly the Chateau de Madrid, in the Bois 

 de Boulogne. In the dedication of his book, ' Recepte Veritable,' to the Queen 

 Mother, he wrote : ' II y a des chases escrites en ce livre qui pourront beau- 

 coup servir a ? Edification de vostre jardin de Chenonceux" 



1 See illustration in de Series's Thtdtre (? Agriculture* 



