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the herbs and flowers shall receive, by passing by them that 

 grow next unto the allies sides, and the better shall your Weeders 

 cleanse both the beds and the allies. ' Paradisi in Sole Paradisus 

 Terrestris (= The Earthly Paradise of Park-in- Sun.}, or a garden 

 of all sorts of pleasant flowers] 6r., with engraved title-page, a 

 portrait and 109 woodcuts (1629, folio). 



A hack-writer on Dreams, Physiognomy, Mysteries, Astronomy and Gar- THOMAS HILL 

 dening ; author of 'A most brief e and pleasarmt Treaty se teachynge howe to or 'DYDYMUS 

 Dress, Sowe, and Set a Garden,' London, 8vo, 1563: and The profitable MOUNTAINS' 

 Arte of Gardening,' 1567; and under the Latinized name of ' Dydynms^" 



Mountaine' he published * The Gardeners Labyrinth' (1571, tfo, 

 letter), and * The Second Part' in 1577. The Gardener's Labyrinth' was 

 re-edited by H. Dethycke his friend, in 1586. 



E husbandman or Gardener shal enjoy a most commodiouse 

 and delectable garden, whiche bothe knoweth, can, and will 

 orderly dresse the same : yet not sufficient is it to a Gardener, 

 that he knoweth, or would the furtherance of the Garden, without 

 a cost bestowed, which the workes and labours of the same 

 require : nor the will againe of the workeman, in doing and 

 bestowing of charges, shall smally avayle, without he have both 

 arte and skill in the same. For that cause, it is the chiefest 

 poynt in every facultie and busines, to understand and know 

 what to begin and follow : as the learned Columella out of 

 Varronianus Tremellius aptly uttereth. The person which shall 

 enjoy or have in a readinesse these three, and will purposedly 

 or with diligence frame to him a well dressed Garden, shall after 

 obtayne these two commodities, as utilitie and delight : the 

 utilitie, yeeldeth the plentie of Herbes, floures, and fruytes 

 right delectable : but the pleasure of the same procureth a 

 delight, and (as Varro writeth) a jucunditie of minde. For 

 that cause a Garden shal workemanly be handled and dressed 

 unto the necessarie use and commoditie of man's life, next for 

 health, and the recoverie of strength by sicknesse feebled : as 

 the singular Palladius Rutilius hath learnedly uttered, and the 

 skilful Florentinus, that wrote cunningly of husbandry in the 



