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did he love Nature, his especial delight being the 

 orchard; of this he writes with great tenderness and 

 feeling, always. Here in one place, it "takes away 

 the tediousnesse and heavie load of three or four score 

 years !" Again it "is the honest delight of one wearied 

 with the workes of his lawful calling." Everywhere 

 he dwells upon its beauty and charm quite as much as 

 he dwells upon its importance and great value, econom- 

 ically; yet he is a decidedly practical writer who al- 

 ways advises wisely and for efficiency. 



Fifty years later another book about garden making^ 

 came out in England — a huge affair — which must also 

 have interested the garden-making gentry here. This 

 gave some quite detailed directions, and many designs, 

 some of which are shown. The fruit garden or 

 orchard "of forty square yards" — ^meaning of course 

 forty yards square — with a flower garden half that 

 size, is pronounced sufficient for a "private gentle- 

 man" ; a nobleman may enlarge upon these so that he 

 has eighty yards square for his fruit, and thirty for 

 his flower garden. A wall of brick all around, nine 

 feet high, with a five-foot wall dividing the fruits from 

 the flowers, shows that he expects these two to join. 

 Large square beds in the flower gardens were to be 

 railed with painted wooden rails or bordered with box 

 "or palisades for dwarf trees" — low pales for cordons 

 probably. 



