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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION.— July 2!), 1806. 
Art and Trade of Husbandry,” published in 1014, breaks 
forth into these loud praises of the arrangements then 
adopted:—“ What a goodly sight is heere! IIow excellently 
have you garnished this paradise of yours with all kinds of 
pleasures! Your pleasant arbours to walk in, whose shad- 
dowes keepe off the heate of the sunue, and if it fortune to 
raine, the cloisters are hard by. But specially this little 
river, with most cleere water encompassing the garden, 
doth wondefully set it forth, and herewitliall the greene and 
goodly quiclcsct hedges, no chargeable, kind of enclosures, 
differeth it both from man and beast. I speake nothing of 
the well-ordered quarters, whereas the Hearbes and Trees 
are severed every sort in their due place, the Trees and 
hr,pcs in another quarter, all in just square and proportion, 
with Allc.is and walkes among them.” 
The “Arbour" thus praised by Googe is more particularly 
described by Didymus Mountain in “ The Gardener’s 
Labyrinth,” already referred to by ns. In that age of 
phonetic spelling, when every one spelt after the way of 
his own ear, Mountain writes of it as follows :— 
“ The owner or gardener that would set Rose-trees to | 
runne up by the poles of the herber, ought workmanly to 
beginne and doe the same about the middest of Felmuarie, 
and in the first quarter of the moone, the beds before well 
reared with a stonie and drie earth, and not with dung. 
The Rose-trees with their rootes, are also to be planted in 
short and narrow beds diligently raised with a drie earth, 
but if the gardener or owner will, slippes may be broken off 
from the rootes, cut in a slope manor at the heades, about 
a mans foote and a halfe long, writhed at the ends, and so 
set in a slope maner, a foot deepe into beds, well reared 
with a drie earth, and in the encrease of the moone. The ; 
olde trees newe set everie lift yeare in the waine of the. j 
moone, take root the sooner, and yeeld the more Roses, 
being proined and refreshed everie yeere with new and drie | 
earth about the roots, for neither the slips nor old roots joy j 
in a fat cleye, or moist grouude, but in the drie and stony i 
earth, and to bee sette in rankes well a foote distance one j 
from another, in drie beddes well reared up : for bestowed j 
in ranks of such distance betweene, they prosper the better, I 
“ The herber in a garden may be framed with Juniper 
poles, or the "Willow, either to stretch, or to he hound to¬ 
gether with Osiers, after a square forme, or in arch manor 
winded, that the branches of the Vine, Melone, or Cucumber, 
running and spreading all over, might so shadow and keepe 
both the heat and sun from the walkers and sitters there 
under. The hearbs erected and framed in most gardens, 
are to their much refreshing, comfort and delight. These 
two, as the upright, directed by quarters set in the earth, 
and leaning to the wall, neare to which faire Rosemarie, or 
the red Rose, set to run straight up, and the winding in 
arch maner, framed (as J uttered afore) with the Juniper, 
or Withie poles, to shadow the walles there under. To this 
fastning the Vine, and sundrie hearbs, which in the growing 
up, runne and spread over the same, as the Brvonne, Cu¬ 
cumber, Gourd, and divers others, of which here under we 
shal more fullie entreat. But first I meane to speak of 
those hearbs, which the gardener planteth and ordereth to 
run for beauties sake in an upright herber: after to intreate 
of those, which he either soweth or planteth, to run over 
the winding or arch herber. The plants to run up, and 
serve comeliest for the straight herber, ought to be those of 
a fragrant savour, and that grow or shoot up high, and are 
spread abroad, which especially framed in garden for delight 
and pleasure, and these properly named wall hearbes, in 
that they are set in a maner leaning to the wall, with the 
quarters set upright, and plottes fastened overthwart, along 
the which, the Rosemarie, the Jasmine, and red Rose in 
many gardens, set to grow upright, which in time growing, 
beautiiie an upright herber, although these cover not the 
same, through their shorter and lower growing than the 
herber: yet the commoditie ensueth by tlie herber, that the 
owners friends sitting in the same, may the freelier see and 
behold the beautie of the garden, to their great delight. 
The. erection and garnishing of the winding herber may 
best be wrought with Juniper poles, in that these may well 
endure without repairing for tenne yeares: but those 
framed with the Willow poles, require everie three yeare to 
bee repaired. 
and yeelde more Roses. The seedes of the Rose committed 
to the earth, doe slowly come up, yet so often as you minde 
to sowe the, seedes, hestowe them a foote deepe in light and 
drie earth, about the middest of March with us, and in 
Februarie, in hoter places, the moone then increasing. 
Heere may any truely learn by the instruction of the worthy 
Nenpolitane Palladius Rulilius, which are the seedes of the 
Rose: for a man (saith he) may not thinke the yellow' 
graines within the Rose flower (being of a golden colour) 
to be them, but the knobs which grow after the maner of a 
most short and small Peare, the seedes of which are then 
full ripe, when they be perceived brownish and soft, which 
will be in the moneth of September. The owner also may 
set the Jasmine-tree bearing a flagrant flower, the Muske j 
Rose, Damask Rose, and Privet-tree, in beds of drie earth, I 
to shoote up and spread over this herber, which in time 
growing not only defendeth the heate of the sunne, but 
yeeldeth a delectable smell, much refreshing the sitters j 
under it. But this arehe herber for any kinde of Roses, 
may not be built much above a man’s heigth for the short i 
growth of them. And as this herber is delectable to the 
eye, even so laborsome, and with diligence to bee tended: ! 
for which cause the more number in England, plant Vines 
(for the lesser travaile) to runne and spread over the upright 
and square herbs, framed with quarters and polles reaching 
a breadth. After the hearbes seemely performed, in con¬ 
venient places and walkes of the garden ground (heere 
meaning and speaking of the large plottes) the allies even 
troden out, and leavel, led by a line, as either three or foure 
foote abroad, may cleanly be sifted over with river or sea 
sand, to the end that showers of raine falling, may not 
offend the walkers (at that instant) in them, by the earth 
cleaving or elagging to their i'eete. The commodities of 
these allies and walkes, serve to good purposes, the one is, 
that the owner may diligently view the prosperitie of his 
hearbes and flowers, the other for the delight and comfort 
of his wearied mind, which he may by himselfe, or fellow¬ 
ship of his friends conceive, in the delectable sights, and 
fragrant smelles of the flowers, by walking up and downe, 
