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2 garden hould be, let me likewie aduie you where it hould not be, at leat that it is the wort place wherein it may be, if it be either on the Wet or Eat ide of your houe, or that it tand in a moorih ground, or other vnwholsome ayre (for many, both fruits, herbes, and flowers that are tender, participate with the ayre, taking in a manner their chiefet thriuing from thence) or neare any common Lay-talles, or common Sewers, or ele neare any great Brew-houe, Dye-houe, or any other place where there is much moake, whether it be of traw, wood, or epecially of ea-coales, which of all other is the wort, as our Citie of London can giue proofe ufficient, wherein neither herbe nor tree will long proper, nor hath done euer ince the ve of ea-coales beganne to bee frequent therein. And likewie that it is much the wore, if it bee neare vnto any Barnes or Stackes of corne or hey, becaue that from thence will continually with the winde bee brought into the garden the trawe and chaffe of the corne, the dut and eede of the hey to choake or peter it. Next vnto the place or ituation, let mee hew you the grounds or oyles for it, eyther naturall or artificiall. No man will deny, but the natural blacke mould is not only the fattet and richet, but farre exceedeth any other either naturall or artificiall, as well in goodnee as durability. And next thereunto, I hold the andy loame (which is light and yet firme, but not looe as and, nor tiffe like vnto clay) to be little inferiour for this our Garden of pleaure; for that it doth caue all bulbous and tuberous rooted plants to thriue ufficiently therein, as likewie all other flower-plants, Roes, Trees, &c. which if it hall decay by much turning and working out the heart of it, may oone be helped with old table manure of hores, being well turned in, when it is old and almot conuerted to mould. Other grounds, as chalke, and, grauell, or clay, are euery of them one more or lee fertill or barren than other; and therefore doe require uch helpes as is mot fit for them. And thoe grounds that are ouer dry, looe, and dutie, the manure of tall fedde beats and cattell being buried or trenched into the earth, and when it is thorough rotten (which will require twice the time that the table oyle of hores will) well turned and mixed with the earth, is the bet oyle to temper both the heate and drinee of them. So contrariwie the table dung of hores is the bet for cold grounds, to giue them heate and life. But of all other orts of grounds, the tiffe clay is the very wort for this purpose; for that although you should digge out the whole compae of your Garden, carry it away, and bring other good mould in the tead thereof, and fill vp the place, yet the nature of that clay is o predominant, that in a mall time it will eate out the heart of the good mould, and conuert it to its owne nature, or very neare vnto it: o that to bring it to any good, there mut bee continuall labour betowed thereon, by bringing into it good tore of chalke, lime, or and, or ele ahes eyther of wood or of ea-coales (which is the bet for this ground) well mixed and turned in with it. And as this tiffe clay is the wort, o what ground oeuer commeth nearet vnto the nature thereof, is nearet vnto it in badnee, the ignes whereof are the ouermuch moyture thereof in Winter, and the much cleauing and chapping thereof in Summer, when the heate of the yeare hath conumed the moyfture, which tyed and bound it faft together, as alo the tiffe and hard working therein: but if the nature of the clay bee not too tiffe, but as it were tempered and mixed with and or other earths, your old table oyle of hores will helpe well the mall rifting or chapping thereof, to be plentifully betowed therin in a fit eaon. Some alo do commend the cating of ponds and ditches, to helpe to manure thee tiffe chapping grounds. Other grounds, that are ouermoit by prings, that lye too neare the vpper face of the earth, beides that the beds thereof had need to be laid vp higher, and the allies, as trenches and furrowes, to lye lower, the ground it elfe had neede to haue ome good tore of chalke-tones betowed thereon, ome certaine yeares, if it may be, before it be laid into a Garden, that the Winter frots may breake the chalke mall, and the Raine diolue it into mould, that o they may bee well mixed together; than which, there is not any better manure to oyle uch a moit ground, to helpe to dry vp the moyture, and to giue heate and life to the coldnee thereof, which doth alwayes accompany thee moit grounds, and alo to caue it abide longer in heart than any other. For the andy and grauelly grounds, although I know the well mollified manure of beats and cattell to be excellent good, yet I know alo, that ome commend a white Marle, and ome a clay to be well pread thereon, and after turned thereinto: and for the chalkie ground, è conuerfo, I commend fatte clay to helpe it. You mut vndertand, that the lee rich or more barren that your ground is, there Rh