72 THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



Lilium Convallium, some with Sweet-Williams Red, some with 

 Bear's-Foot, and the like Low Flowers, being withall Sweet and 

 Sightly. Part of which Heaps, to be with Standards, of little 

 Bushes prickt upon their top, and part without ; the Standards 

 to be Roses, Juniper, Holly, Bear-berries, (but here and there, 

 because of the smell of their blossom), Red Currans, Goose- 

 berries, Rosemary, Bays, Sweet-Briar, and such like. But 

 these Standards to be kept with Cutting, that they grow not 

 out of course. 



For the Side Grounds, you are to fill them with variety of 

 Alleys, private, to give a full shade, some of them, wheresoever 

 the Sun be. You are to frame some of them, likewise for shelter, 

 that when the wind blows sharp, you may walk as in a Gallery. 

 And those Alleys must be likewise hedged at both Ends, to keep 

 out the Wind, and these closer Alleys must be ever finely 

 Gravelled, and no grass, because of going wet. In many of 

 these Alleys likewise, you are to set Fruit Trees of all sorts ; as 

 well upon the Walls, as in Ranges. And this would be generally 

 observed, that the Borders wherein you plant your Fruit-Trees 

 be fair and large, and low, and not steep, and set with fine 

 Flowers, but thin and sparingly, lest they deceive the trees. 

 At the end of both the side Grounds, I would have a Mount 

 of some pretty Height, leaving the Wall of the Enclosure breast- 

 high, to look abroad into the Fields. 



For the Main Garden, I do not deny, but there should be some 

 fair Alleys ranged on both sides with Fruit-Trees, and some pretty 

 Tufts of Fruit-Trees and Arbors with Seats, set in some decent 

 Order ; but these to be by no means set too thick ; but to leave 

 the Main Garden, so as it be not close, but the Air open and free ; 

 for as for Shade I would have you rest upon the Alleys of the 

 Side Grounds, there to walk, if you be disposed, in the Heat of 

 the Year or Day : but to make account, that the Main Garden is 

 for the more temperate parts of the year, and in the Heat of 

 Summer, for the Morning and the Evening, or Over-cast 

 days. 



For Aviaries, I like them not, except they be of that largeness, 



