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Bacon’s essa*s. 15J
blows sharp, you may walk as in a gallery: and
those alleys must likewise be hedged tit both ends, to
keep out the wind; and these closer alleys must be
ever finely gravelled, and no grass, because of going
wet. In many of these alleys, likewise, you are to
set fruit trees of all sorts, as well upon the walls as in
ranges; and this should be generally observed, that
the borders wherein you plant your fruit trees be
fair and large and low and not steep; and set with
fine flowers, but thin and sparingly, lest they deceive
the trees. At the end of both the side grounds I
would have a mount of some pretty height, leaving
the w all of the enclosure breast high, to look abroad
into the fields.
For the main garden I do not deny but there
should be some fair alleys ranged on both sides, with
fruit trees, and some pretty tufts of fruit trees and
arbours with seats, set in some decent order: but
these to be by no means 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 would have you rest
upon the alleys of the side grounds, there to walk, if
you be disposed, in the heat of the year or day; but
to make account that the main garden is for the more
temperate parts of the year, and, in the heat of
summer, for the morning and the evening, or over¬
cast days.
For aviaries, I like them not, except they be of
that largeness as they may be turfed and have living
plants and bushes set in them; that the birds may
have more scope and natural nestling, and that no
foulness appear on the floor of the aviary. So I have
made the platform of a princely garden, partly by
precept, partly by drawing; not a model, but some
general lines of it; and in this I have spared for no
cost; but it is nothing for great princes, that for
the most part taking advice with workmen, with no