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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. 
