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Rh the more care, labour, and cot to bee betowed thereon, both to order it rightly, & o to preerue it from time to time: for no artificiall or forc't ground can endure good any long time, but that within a few yeares it mut be refrehed more or lee, according as it doth require. Yet you hall likewie vndertand, that this Garden of pleaure tored with thee Out-landih flowers; that is, bulbous and tuberous rooted plants, and other fine flowers, that I haue hereafter decribed, and aigned vnto it, needeth not o much or o often manuring with oyle, &c. as another Garden planted with the other orts of Englih flowers, or a Garden of ordinary Kitchin herbes doth. Your ground likewie for this Garden had neede to bee well cleaned from all annoyances (that may hinder the well doing or propering of the flowers therein) as tones, weedes, rootes of trees, buhes, &c. and all other things cumberome or hurtfull; and therefore the earth being not naturally fine enough of it elfe, is ved to bee ifted to make it the finer, and that either through a hurdle made of ticks, or lathes, or through quare or round ieues platted with fine and trong thin tickes, or with wyers in the bottome. Or ele the whole earth of the Garden being coure, may be cat in the ame manner that men ve to try or fine and from grauell, that is, againt a wall; whereby the courer and more tony, falling downe from the fine, is to be taken away from the foote of the heape, the finer and and ground remaining till aboue, and on the heape. Or ele in the want of a wall to cat it againt, I haue eene earth fined by it elfe in this manner: Hauing made the floore or vpper part of a large plat of ground cleane from tones, &c. let there a reaonable round heape of fine earth be et in the midt thereof, or in tead thereof a large Garden flowerpot, or other great pot, the bottome turned vpwards, and then poure your coure earth on the top or head thereof, one houell full after another omewhat gently, and thereby all the coure tuffe and tones will fall downe to the bottome round about the heape, which mut continually be carefully taken away, and thus you may make your earth as fine as if it were cat againt a wall, the heape being growne great, eruing in tead thereof. Thoe that will not prepare their grounds in ome of thee manners aforeaid, hall oone finde to their loe the neglect thereof: for the trah and tones hall o hinder the encreae of their roots, that they will be halfe lot in the earth among the tones, which ele might be aued to erue to plant whereoeuer they pleae.

Lthough many men mut be content with any plat of ground, of what forme or quantity oeuer it bee, more or lee, for their Garden, becaue a more large or conuenient cannot bee had to their habitation: Yet I perwade my elfe, that Gentlemen of the better ort and quality, will prouide uch a parcell of ground to bee laid out for their Garden, and in uch conuenient manner, as may be fit and anwerable to the degree they hold. To precribe one forme for euery man to follow, were too great preumption and folly: for euery man will pleae his owne fancie, according to the extent he deigneth out for that purpoe, be it orbicular or round, triangular or three quare, quadrangular or foure quare, or more long than broad. I will onely hew you here the euerall formes that many men haue taken and delighted in, let euery man chue which him liketh bet, or may mot fitly agree to that proportion of ground hee hath et out for that purpoe. The orbicular or round forme is held in itits [sic] owne proper exitence to be the mot abolute forme, containing within it all other formes whatoeuer; but few I thinke will chue uch a proportion to be ioyned to their habitation, being not accepted any where I think, but for the generall Garden to the Vniuerity at Padoa. The triangular or three quare is uch a forme alo, as is eldome choen by any that may make another choie, and as I thinke is onely had where another forme cannot be had, neceitie contraining them to be therewith content. The foure quare forme is the mot vually accepted with all, and doth bet agree to any mans dwelling, being (as I aid before) behinde the houe, all the backe windowes thereof opening into it. Yet if it bee longer than the breadth, or broader than the length, the proportion of walkes, quares, and knots may be oon brought to the quare forme, and be o cat, as the beauty thereof may Rh