210 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 
against it devoted to tender auriculas, “July-flowers,” 
myrtles, oleanders and “other such plants,” left in the 
pots, which were set on the earth. 
Immediately along the edging rail of this border, 
next to the walk, a row of crocuses of different sorts 
were mingled suitably. At the corners of the beds 
“within the fret” there were the best crown imperials, 
lilies, martagons and tall flowers. The middles of 
the squares held tufts of peonies, and around these 
were several sorts of cyclamen. The rest of the space 
was filled with daffodils, hyacinths “and such.” 
Straight beds were pronounced best for the tulips, 
“where account may be kept of them”; ranunculus 
and anemones also required special beds, but “the 
more ordinary tulips, fritillarias, bulbous iris and the 
commoner flowers” might be set all over as fancy dic¬ 
tated. 
A fruit garden was separately planned, set with 
pears, plums, cherries, apricots, peaches, nectarines 
and vines, and between these “roses, currants, goose¬ 
berries, cypress trees, miszerion and other shrubs, ac¬ 
cording to preference.” The borders along the 
boundary in this garden and the other beds where no 
fruit grew, were to have the more ordinary kinds of 
“Lilies, Martagons, peonies, daffodils and tulips, such 
as are least worthy for the flower garden.” Box was 
generally favored for the edgings here, the beds being 
