THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION.— July 29,1850. 
formal]. Ami a square may be drawn out of any form to 
make straight walks; and no forme of itselfe is either good 
or bad for the trees. If within one large square the 
gardner shall make one round labyrinth or maze with some 
kind of berries, it will grace your forme, so there be 
sufficient roomth left for walkes, so will foure or moe round 
knots doe. For it is to be noted, that the eye must be 
pleased with the forme. I have seen squares rising by 
degrees with staires from jour house-ward, according to 
this forme which I have, Orassa quod aiunt Minerva, with 
an unsteady baud, rough heweu, for in forming the country 
gardeners, the better sort may use better formes, and more 
costly worke.” 
“ What can your eye desire to see, your eates to heare, 
your mouth to taste, or your nose to smell, that is not to be 
had in an Orchard, with abundance and variety? What 
more delightsome than an intinite varietie of sweet smelling 
flowers ? decking with sundry colours, the green mantle of 
the earth, the universall Mother of us all, so by them 
j bespotted, so dyed, that all the world cannot sample them, 
' and wherein it is more fit to admire the Dyer, than imitate 
i his workemauship. Colouring not onely the earth, hut 
j decking the ayre, and sweetning every breath and spirit. 
“ The Rose red, damaske, velvet, and double double 
| province Rose, the sweet muske Rose double and single, 
the double and single white Rose. The faire and sweet 
' senting Woodbinds, double and single, and double double, 
i Purple Cowslips, and double Cowslips, and double double 
i Cowslips. Primerose double and single. The Violet nothing 
beliinde the best, for smelling sweetly. And 1000 more will 
provoke your content. 
“And all these, by the skill of your gardiner, so comely, 
and orderly placed in your borders and squares, and so inter¬ 
mingled, that none looking thereon, cannot but wonder, to 
see, what nature corrected by art can doe. 
“When you behold in divers corners of your Orchard 
mounts of stone, or wood curiously wrought within and 
without, or of earth covered with fruit-trees : Kentish 
Cherry, Damsons, Plummes, Ac. With staires of precious 
workemanship. And in some corner (or mo) a true dyall 
or clocke, and some anticke workes, and especially silver- 
sounding musique, mist instruments and voices, gracing all 
the rest : how will you he rapt with delight ? 
“ Large walks, broad and long, close and open, like the 
Tempe groves in ThessaJie, raised with graved and sand, 
having seats and banks of Camomile, all this delights the 
amide, and brings health to the body. 
“ View now with delight the workes of your owne hands, 
your fruit trees of all sorts, loaden with sweet blossomes, 
and fruit of all tasts, operations, and colours : your trees 
standing in comely order which way sover you looke. 
“ Your borders on every side hanging and drooping with 
Feberries, Raspberries, Barberies, Currens, and the rootes 
of your trees powdred with Strawberries, red, white, and 
greene, what a pleasure is this? Your gardiner can frame 
your lesser wood to the shape of men armed in the field, 
ready to give battell: or swift running greyhounds : or of 
well sented and true running hounds, to chase the deere, or 
hunt the hare. This kinde of hunting shall not waste you 
corue, nor lhiich your coyne. 
“ Blazes well framed a mans height, may perhaps make 
your friend wander in gathering of berries, till bee cannot 
recover himselfe without your helpe. 
“ To have occasion to exercise within your Orchard : it 
shall be a pleasure to have a bowling alley, or rather 
(which is more manly, and more healthfull), a pair of buts, 
to stretch your armes. 
“ Rosemary and sweet Eglantine are seemely ornaments 
about a doore or window, so is Woodbinde. 
“ Looke Chap. 5. and you shall see the forme of a 
conduit. If there were two or more, it were not amisse. 
“ And in mine opinion, I could highly commend your 
Orchard, if either thorow it, or hard by it there should 
ruune a pleasant river with silver streames : you might sit 
in your mount, and angle a peckled trout, or sleightio eele, 
or some other fish. Or moats, whereon you might row 
with a boat, and fish with nets. 
- “ Store of bees in a dry and warme bee-house, comely 
made of Firboords, to sing, and sit, and feed upon your 
flowers and sprouts, make a pleasant noyse and sight. For 
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cleanely and innocent bees, of all other things, love and 
become, and thrive in an Orchard. If they thrive (as they 
must needs, if your gardiner be skillful, and love them : for 
they love their friends, and hate none but their enemies) 
they will, besides the pleasure, yeeld great profit, to pay 
him bis wages. Yea, the increase of twenty stocks orstooles, 
with other fees, will keep your Orchard. You need not 
doubt their stings,for they hurt not whom they know, and they 
know their keeper and acquaintance. If you like not to come 
amongst them, you need not doubt them : for but neere 
their store, and in their own defence, they will not fight, and 
: in that case onely (and who can blame them ?) they are 
| manly, and fight desperately. Some (as that Honourable 
Lady at Haclcnes,* whose name doth much grace mine 
Orchard) use to make seats for them in the stone wall of 
their Orchard, or garden, which is good, but wood is better. 
“ A Vine over-sliadowing a scat, is very coruely, though 
her Grapes with us ripe slowly, 
i “ One chief grace that adornes an Orchard I cannot let 
I slip : a brood of Nightingales, who with their severall notes 
I and tunes, with a strong delightsome voice, out of a weake 
body, will bear you company night and day. She loves 
(and lives in) hots of woods in her heart. She will help 
you to cleanse your trees of caterpillars, and all noisome 
wormes and flyes. The gentle Robin-red-brest will helpe 
her, and in winter in the coldest stormes will keepe a part. 
Neither will the silly Wren he behind in summer, with her 
distinct whistle (like a sweet recorder) to clieere your spirits. 
“ The Black bird and Tlirestle (for I take it the Thrush 
sings not, but devours) siug loudly in a May morning, and 
delights the eare much (and you need not want their 
company, if you have ripe Cherries or berries, and would as 
gladly as the rest doe you pleasure :) but I bad rather want 
their company than my fruit. 
“ What shall I say ? 1000 of delights are in an Orchard : 
and sooner shall I be weary, then I can reckon the least 
part of that pleasure, which one that hath aud loves an 
Orchard, may find therein. 
“ What is there of aU these few that I have reckoned, 
which doth not please the eye, the eare, the smell, and 
taste : and by these sences as organes, pipes, and windowes, 
these delights are carried to refresh the gentle, generous, 
and noble minde. 
“ To conclude, what joy may you have, that you living 
to such an age, shall see the blessings of God on your ! 
j labours while you live, and leave behind you to your beires [ 
| or successors (for God will make heires) such a worke, that j 
many ages after your death, shall record your love to your j 
country ? aud the rather, when you consider to what length ; 
j of time your worke is like to last.” 
If we refer to the first part of “ The Gardener’s 1 
Labyrinth,” published in 1504 by Henry Dethieke, though 
'stated on the title-page to have been “ gathered by Didymus 
i Mountain,” the friend of Dethieke, “ lately enterred,” we I 
there find other plans, such as the following, and which 
Thomas Hill, in 1608, copied in his “ Arte of Gardening.” 
Barnaby Googe, in his translation of Heresbach’s “ Wliol 0 
* Hackness, near Scarborough, is still celebrated for its gardens. 
