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Dust, like the Dust of a Bent, which grows upon the Cluster 

 in the first coming forth. Then Sweet-Briar, then Wall-Flowers, 

 which are very delightful to be set under a Parlour, or lower 

 Chamber Window. Then Pinks, especially the Matted Pink, 

 and Clove Gilly-Flower. Then the Flowers of the Lime-Tree. 

 Then the Honey-Suckles, so they be somewhat afar off. Of 

 Bean-Flowers I speak not, because they are Field-Flowers. But 

 those which perfume the Air most delightfully, not passed by 

 as the rest, but being Trodden upon and Crushed, are three : 

 that is Burnet, Wild-Time, and Water-Mints. Therefore you 

 are to set whole Alleys of them, to have the Pleasure when 

 you walk or tread. 



For Gardens (speaking of those which are indeed Prince-like, 

 as we have done of Buildings), the Contents ought not well to 

 be under thirty Acres of Ground, and to be divided into three 

 parts ; a Green in the entrance, a Heath or Desart in the going 

 forth, and the Garden in the midst, besides Alleys on both sides. 

 And I like well, that four Acres of Ground be assigned to the 

 Green, six to the Heath, four and four to either Side, and twelve 

 to the Main Garden. The Green hath two pleasures; the one 

 because nothing is more pleasant to the Eye than Green Grass 

 kept finely shorn ; the other because it will give you a fair Alley 

 in the midst, by which you may go in front upon a Stately Hedge, 

 which is to enclose the Garden. But because the Alley will be 

 long, and in great Heat of the Year or Day, you ought not to 

 buy the shade in the Garden, by going in the Sun through the 

 Green; therefore you are, of either Side the Green, to plant a 

 Covert Alley upon Carpenter's Work, about twelve foot in Height, 

 by which you may go in shade into the Garden. As for the 

 making of Knots or Figures, with Divers Coloured Earths, that 

 they may lie under the Windows of the House, on that Side 

 which the Garden stands, they be but Toys, you may see as 

 good sights many times in Tarts. The Garden is best to be 

 Square, Encompassed on all the four Sides, with a Stately Arched 

 Hedge : the Arches to be upon Pillars of Carpenter's Work, of 

 some ten foot high, and six foot broad, and the Spaces between 



