God almighty first plant a garden and indeed it be the pure of human pleasure  it be the great refreshment to the spirit of man without which building and  palace be but gross handiworks and a man shall ever see that when age grow to  civility and elegancy man come to build stately soon than to garden fine as if  garden be the great perfection I do hold it in the royal order of garden there  ought to be garden for all the month in the year in which several thing of  beauty may be then in season for December and January and the latter part of  November you must take such thing as be green all winter holly ivy bay juniper  cypress tree yew pine appletree fir-tree rosemary lavender periwinkle the  white the purple and the blue germander flag orange tree lemon tree and myrtle  if they be stoved and sweet marjoram warm set there follow for the latter part  of January and February the mezereon tree which then blossom crocus  slave born in the master both the yellow and the grey primrose anemone the  early tulippa iris Easterner chamairis fritellaria for march there come violet  special the single blue which be the early the yellow daffodil the daisy the  almond tree in blossom the peach tree in blossom the cornelian tree in blossom  sweet briar in April follow the double white violet the wallflower the stock  gillyflower the cowslip flowerdelices and lily of all nature rosemary flower  the tulippa the double peony the pale daffodil the French honeysuckle the  cherry tree in blossom the damson and plum tree in blossom the white thorn in  leaf the lilac tree in may and June come pink of all sort special the  blushpink rise of all kind except the musk which come late honeysuckle  strawberry bugloss columbine the French marigold flower African cherry tree in  fruit rib fig in fruit rasp vineflowers lavender in flower the sweet satyrian  with the white flower herba fly lilium a valley the apple tree in blossom in  July come gillyflower of all variety musk rise the lime tree in blossom early  pear and plum in fruit jennetings codlin in August come plum of all sort in  fruit pear apricot berberries filbert musk melon monk hood of all colour in  September come grape apple poppy of all colour peach melocotones nectarine  cornelian warden quince in October and the beginning of November come service  medlar bullaces rise cut or remove to come late hollyhock and such like these  particular be for the climate of London but my meaning be perceive that you  may have for continuous as the place afford and because the breath of flower  be far sweet in the air where it come and go like the warble of music than in  the hand therefore nothing be more fit for that delight than to know what be  the flower and plant that do best perfume the air rise damask and read be fast  flower of their smell so that you may walk by a whole row of they and find  nothing of their sweetness yea though it be in a morning due bay likewise  yield no smell as they grow rosemary little nor sweet marjoram that which  above all other yield the sweet smell in the air be the violet special the  white double violet which come twice a year about the middle of April and  about Bartholomew tide next to that be the musk rise then the strawberry leave  die which yield a most excellent cordial smell then the flower of vine it be a  little dust like the dust of a bend which grow upon the cluster in the first  come forth then sweet briar then wall flower which be very delightful to be  set under a parlour or low chamber window then pink and gillyflower especial  the mat pink and cleave gillyflower then the flower of the lime tree then the  honeysuckle so they be somewhat afar off of beanflowers I speak not because  they be field flower but those which perfume the air most delightful not pass  by as the rest but be tread upon and crush be three that be burnet wildthyme  and watermints therefore you be to set whole alley of they to have the  pleasure when you walk or tread for garden speak of those which be indeed  princelike as we have do of building the content ought not well to be under  thirty acre of ground and to be divide into three part a green in the entrance  a heath or desert in the go forth and the main garden in the amid beside alley  on both side and I like well that four acre of ground be assign to the green  six to the heath four and four to either side and twelve to the main garden  the green have two pleasure the one because nothing be more pleasant to the  eye than green grass keep fine shear the other because it will give you a fair  alley in the amid by which you may go in front upon a stately hedge which be  to enclose the garden but because the alley will be long and in great heat of  the year or day you ought not to buy the shade in the garden by go in the sun  through the green therefore you be of either side the green to plant a covert  alley upon carpenter work about twelve foot in height by which you may go in  shade into the garden as for the make of knot or figure with diverse colour  earth that they may lie under the window of the house on that side which the  garden stand they be but toy you may see as good sight many time in tart the  garden be best to be square encompass on all the four side with a stately arch  hedge the arch to be upon pillar of carpenter work of some ten foot high and  six foot broad and the space between of the same dimension with the breadth of  the arch over the arch let there be a entire hedge of some four foot high  frame also upon carpenter work and upon the upper hedge over every arch a  little turret with a belly enough to receive a cage of bird and over every  space between the arch some other little figure with broad Plataeae of round  colour glass gild for the sun to play upon but this hedge I intend to be raise  upon a bank not steep but gentle slope of some six foot set all with flower  also I understand that this square of the garden shall not be the whole  breadth of the ground but to leave on either side ground enough for diversity  of side alley unto which the two covert alley of the green may deliver you but  there must be no alley with hedge at either end of this great enclosure not at  the hither end for let your prospect upon this fair hedge from the green nor  at the further end for let your prospect from the hedge through the arch upon  the heath for the order of the ground within the great hedge I leave it to  variety of device advice nevertheless that whatsoever from you cast it into  first it be not too busy or full of work wherein I for my part do not like  image cut out in juniper or other garden stuff they be for child little low  hedge round like welt with some pretty pyramid I like well and in some place  fair column upon frame of carpenter work I will also have the alley spacious  and fair you may have close alley upon the side ground but none in the main  garden I wish also in the very middle a fair mount with three ascent and alley  enough for four to walk abreast which I will have to be perfect circle without  any bulwark or embossments and the whole mount to be thirty foot high and some  fine banquet house with some chimney neat cast and without too much glass for  fountain they be a great beauty and refreshment but pool mar all and make the  garden unwholesome and full of fly and frog fountain I intend to be of two  nature the one that sprinkle or spout water the other a fair receipt of water  of some thirty or forty foot square but without fish or slime or mud for the  first the ornament of image gild or of marble which be in use do well but the  main matter be so to convey the water as it never stay either in the bowl or  in the cistern that the water be never by rest discolour green or read or the  like or gather any mossiness or putrefaction beside that it be to be cleanse  every day by the hand also some step up to it and some fine pavement about it  do well as for the other kind of fountain which we may call a bath pool it may  admit much curiosity and beauty wherewith we will not trouble ourselves as  that the bottom be fine pave and with image the side likewise and withal  embellish with colour glass and such thing of lustre encompass also with fine  rail of low statue but the main point be the same which we mention in the  former kind of fountain which be that the water be in perpetual motion feed by  a water high than the pool and deliver into it by fair spout and then  discharge away under ground by some equality of boar that it stay little and  for fine device of arch water without spill and make it rise in several from  of feather drink glass canopy and the like they be pretty thing to look on but  nothing to health and sweetness for the heath which be the three part of our  plot I wish it to be frame as much as may be to a natural wildness tree I will  have none in it but some thicket make only of sweet briar and honeysuckle and  some wild vine among and the ground set with violet strawberry and primrose  for these be sweet and prosper in the shade and these to be in the heath here  and there not in any order I like also little heap in the nature of mole hill  such as be in wild heath to be set some with wild thyme some with pink some  with germander that give a good flower to the eye some with periwinkle some  with violet some with strawberry some with cowslip some with daisy some with  read rise some with lilium a valley some with sweet williams read some with  bear's-foot and the like low flower be withal sweet and sightly part of which  heap be to be with standard of little bush prick upon their top and part  without the standard to be rise juniper holly berberries but here and there  because of the smell of their blossom read currant gooseberry rosemary bay  sweetbriar and such like but these standard to be keep with cut that they grow  not out of course for the side ground you be to fill they with variety of  alley private to give a full shade some of they wheresoever the sun be you be  to frame some of they likewise for shelter that when the wind blow sharp you  may walk as in a gallery and those alley must be likewise hedge at both end to  keep out the wind and these close alley must be ever fine gravel and no grass  because of go wet in many of these alley likewise you be to set fruit tree of  all sort as well upon the wall as in range and this will be general observe  that the border wherein you plant your fruit tree be fair and large and low  and not steep and set with fine flower but thin and spare lest they deceive  the tree at the end of both the side ground I will have a mount of some pretty  height leave the wall of the enclosure breast high to look abroad into the  field for the main garden I do not deny but there shall be some fair alley  range on both side with fruit tree and some pretty tuft of fruit tree and  arbour with seat set in some decent order but these to be by no mean set too  thick but to leave the main garden so as it be not close but the air open and  free for as for shade I will have you rest upon the alley of the side ground  there to walk if you be dispose in the heat of the year or day but to make  account that the main garden be for the more temperate part of the year and in  the heat of summer for the morning and the evening or overcast day for aviary  I like they not except they be of that largeness as they may be turf and have  live plant and bush set in they that the bird may have more scope and natural  nesting and that no foulness appear in the floor of the aviary so I have make  a platform of a princely garden partly by precept partly by draw not a model  but some general line of it and in this I have spare for no cost but it be  nothing for great prince that for the most part take advice with workman with  no less cost set their thing together and sometime add statue and such thing  for state and magnificence but nothing to the true pleasure of a garden