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Rh doth not eaily breake or poile without much iniury, and keepeth vp a knot for a very long time in his due proportion: but in my opinion, the Leade is ouer-hot for Summer, and ouer-cold for Winter. Others doe take Oaken inch boords, and awing them foure or fiue inches broad, do hold vp their knot therewith: but in that thee boordes cannot bee drawne compae into any mall cantling, they mut erue rather for long outright beds, or uch knots as haue no rounds, halfe rounds, or compaings in them. And beides, thee boordes are not long lating, becaue they tand continually in the weather, epecially the ends where they are fatened together will oonet rot and perih, and o the whole forme will be poyled. To preuent that fault, ome others haue choen the hanke bones of Sheep, which after they haue beene well cleaned and boyled, to take out the fat from them, are tucke into the ground the mall end downewards, and the knockle head vpwards, and thus being et ide to ide, or end to end cloe together, they et out the whole knot therewith, which heads of bones although they looke not white the firt yeare, yet after they haue abiden ome frots and heates will become white, and prettily grace out the ground: but this inconuenience is incident to them, that the Winter frots will raie them out of the ground oftentimes, and if by chance the knockle head of any doe breake, or be trucke off with any ones foot, &c. going by, from your tore, that lyeth by you of the ame ort, et another in the place, hauing firt taken away the broken peece: although thee will lat long in forme and order, yet becaue they are but bones many milike them, and indeed I know but few that ve them. Tyles are alfo ved by ome, which by reaon they may bee brought compae into any fahion many are pleaed with them, who doe not take the whole Tyle at length but halfe Tyles, and other broken peeces et omewhat deepe into the ground, that they may tand fat, and thee take vp but little roome, and keepe vp the edge of the beds and knots in a pretty comely manner, but they are often out of frame, in that many of them are broken and poiled, both with mens feete paing by, the weather and weight of the earth beating them downe and breaking them, but epecially the frots in Winter doe o cracke off their edges, both at the toppes and ides that tand cloe one vnto another, that they mut be continually tended and repaired with freh and ound ones put in the place of them that are broken or decayed. And latly (for it is the latet inuention) round whitih or blewih pebble stones, of ome reaonable proportion and bignee, neither too great nor too little, haue beene ved by ome to be et, or rather in a manner but laide vpon the ground to fahion out the traile or knot, or all along by the large grauelly walke ides to et out the walke, and maketh a pretty handome hew, and becaue the tones will not decay with the iniuries of any time or weather, and will be placed in their places againe, if any hould be thrut out by any accident, as alo that their ight is o conpicuous vpon the ground, epecially it they be not hid with the tore of herbes growing in the knot; is accounted both tor durability, beauty of the ight, handomnee in the worke, and eae in the working and charge, to be of all other dead materials the chiefet. And thus, Gentlemen, I haue hewed you all the varieties that I know are vsed by any in our Countrey, that are worth the reciting (but as for the fahion of Iawe-bones, ved by ome in the Low Countries, and other places beyond the Seas, being too groe and bae, I make no mention ot them) among which euery one may take what pleaeth him bet, or may mot fitly be had, or may bet agree with the ground or knot. Moreouer, all thee herbes that erue for borderings, doe erue as well to be et vpon the ground of a leuelled knot; that is, where the allies and foot-pathes are of the ame leuell with the knot, as they may erue alo for the railed knot, that is, where the beds of the knot are raied higher than the allies; but both Leade, Boordes, Bones, and Tyles, are only for the raied ground, be it knot or beds. The pebble tones againe are onely for the leuelled ground, becauve they are so hallow, that as I aid before, they rather lye vpon the earth than are thrut any way into it. All this that I haue here et downe, you mut vndertand is proper for the knots alone of a Garden. But for to border the whole quare or knot about, to erue as a hedge thereunto, euery one taketh what liketh him bet; as either Priuet alone, or weete Bryer, and white Thorne enterlaced together, and Roes of one, or two, or more orts placed here and there amongt them. Some alo take Lauander, Roemary, Sage, Southernwood, Lauander Cotton, or ome uch other thing. Some againe plant Cornell Trees, and plah them, or keepe them lowe, to Rh