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6 pread into many places within the knot, which if continually they be not plucked vp, they will poile the whole knot it elfe; and therefore once in three or foure yeares at the mot, it mut be taken vp and new et, or ele it will grow too roynih and cumberome. Hyope hath alo been ved to be et about a knot, and being weete, will erue for trewings, as Germander: But this, although the rootes doe not runne or creep like it, yet the talkes doe quickly grow great aboue ground, and dye often after the firt yeares etting, whereby the grace of the knot will be much lot. Marierome, Sauorie, and Thyme, in the like manner being weete herbes, are ved to border vp beds and knots, and will be kept for a little while, with cutting, into ome conformity; but all and euery of them erue mot commonly but for one yeares ve, and will oone decay and perih: and therefore none of thee, no more than any of the former, doe I commend for a good bordering herbe for this purpoe. Lauander Cotton alo being finely lipped and et, is of many, and thoe of the highet repect of late daies, accepted, both for the beauty and forme of the herbe, being of a whitih greene mealy colour, for his ent melling omewhat trong, and being euerliuing and abiding greene all the Winter, will, by cutting, be kept in as euen proportion as any other herbe may be. This will likewie oone grow great and tubbed, notwithstanding the cutting, and betides will now and then perih in ome places, epecially if you doe not trike or put off the now, before the Sunne lying vpon it diolue it: The rarity & nouelty of this herbe, being for the mot part but in the Gardens of great perons, doth caue it to be of the greater regard, it mut therfore be renewed wholly euery econd or third yeare at the most, becaue of the great growing therof. Slips of Iuniper or Yew are alo receiued of ome & planted, becaue they are alwayes green, and that the Iuniper epecially hath not that ill ent that Boxe hath, which I will preently commend vnto you, yet both Iuniper and Yew will oon grow too great and tubbed, and force you to take vp your knot ooner, than if it were planted with Boxe. Which latly, I chiefly and aboue all other herbes commend vnto you, and being a mall, lowe, or dwarfe kinde, is called French or Dutch Boxe, and erueth very well to et out any knot, or border out any beds: for beides that it is euer greene, it being reaonable thicke et, will eaily be cut and formed into any fahion one will, according to the nature thereof, which is to grow very lowly, and will not in a long time rie to be of any height, but hooting forth many mall branches from the roote, will grow very thicke, and yet not require o great tending, nor o much perih as any of the former, and is onely receiued into the Gardens of thoe that are curious. This (as I before aid) I commend and hold to bee the bet and uret herbe to abide faire and greene in all the bitter tormes of the harpet Winter, and all the great heates and droughts of Summer, and doth recompence the want of a good weet ent with his freh verdure, euen proportion, and long lating continuance. Yet thee inconueniences it hath, that beides the vnpleaing ent which many milike, and yet is but mall, the rootes of this Boxe do o much pread themelues into the ground of the knot, and doe draw from thence o much nourihment, that it robbeth all the herbes that grow neare it of their ap and ubtance, thereby making all the earth about it barren, or at leat lee fertile. Wherefore to hew you the remedy of this inconuenience of preading, without either taking vp the Boxe of the border, or the herbes and flowers in the knot, is I thinke a ecret knowne but vnto a few, which is this: You hall take a broad pointed Iron like vnto a Slie or Cheill, which thrut downe right into the ground a good depth all along the inide of the border of Boxe omewhat cloe thereunto, you may thereby cut away the preading rootes thereof, which draw o much moiture from the other herbes on the inide, and by this meanes both preerue your herbes and flowers in the knot, and your Boxe alo, for that the Boxe will be nourihed ufficiently from the ret of the rootes it hooteth on all the other ides. And thus much for the liuing herbes, that erue to et or border vp any knot. Now for the dead materials, they are alo, as I aid before diuers: as firt, Leade, which ome that are curious doe border their knots withall, cauing it to be cut of the breadth of foure fingers, bowing the lower edge a little outward, that it may lye vnder the vpper crut of the ground, and that it may tand the fater, and making the vpper edge either plain, or cut out like vnto the battlements of a Church: this fahion hath delighted ome, who haue accounted it tately (at the leat cotly) and fit for their degree, and the rather, becaue it will be bowed and bended into any round quare, angular, or other proportion as one liteth, and is not much to be miliked, in that the Leade Rh