n8 , BACON'S ESSAYS 



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 like- 

 wise 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 that there should 

 be some fair alleys ranged on both sides, with fruit-trees ; 

 and some pretty tufts of fruit-trees, and arbours 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 overcast days. 



For aviaries, I like them not, except they be of that 

 largeness as they may be turfed, and have living plants and 

 bushes set in them ; that the birds may have more scope, 

 and natural nestling, and that no foulness appear in the 

 floor of the aviary. So I have made a platform of a 

 princely garden, partly by precept, partly by drawing, not 

 a model, but some general lines of it ; and in this I have 

 spared for no cost. But it is nothing for great princes, 

 that for the most part taking advice with workmen, with 

 no less cost set their things together ; and sometimes add 

 statua's, and such things, for state and magnificence, but 

 nothing to the true pleasure of a garden. 



