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36 THE GARDENS OF EPICURUS
contrary, the more northern climates, as they suffer
little by heat, make little provision against it, and
are careless of shade, and seldom curious in foun-
tains. Good statues are in the reach of few men,
and common ones are generally and justly despised or
neglected. But no sorts of good fruits or flowers,
being natives of the climates, or usual among us; (nor
indeed the best sort of plants, herbs, salads for our
kitchen-gardens themselves) and the best fruits not
ripening without the advantage of walls or palisadoes,
by reflection of the faint heat we receive from the
sun, our gardens are made of smaller compass, seldom
exceeding four, six, or eight acres; enclosed with
walls, and laid out in a manner wholly for advantage of
fruits, flowers, and the product of kitchen-gardens in
all sorts of herbs, salads, plants and legumes, for the
common use of tables.
These are usually the gardens of England and
Holland, as the first sort are those of Italy, and were
so of old. In the more temperate parts of France,
and in Brabant (where I take gardening to be at its
greatest height) they are composed of both sorts, the
extent more spacious than ours; part laid out for
flowers, others for fruits; some standards, some
against walls or palisades, some for forest-trees and
contrary, the more northern climates, as they suffer
little by heat, make little provision against it, and
are careless of shade, and seldom curious in foun-
tains. Good statues are in the reach of few men,
and common ones are generally and justly despised or
neglected. But no sorts of good fruits or flowers,
being natives of the climates, or usual among us; (nor
indeed the best sort of plants, herbs, salads for our
kitchen-gardens themselves) and the best fruits not
ripening without the advantage of walls or palisadoes,
by reflection of the faint heat we receive from the
sun, our gardens are made of smaller compass, seldom
exceeding four, six, or eight acres; enclosed with
walls, and laid out in a manner wholly for advantage of
fruits, flowers, and the product of kitchen-gardens in
all sorts of herbs, salads, plants and legumes, for the
common use of tables.
These are usually the gardens of England and
Holland, as the first sort are those of Italy, and were
so of old. In the more temperate parts of France,
and in Brabant (where I take gardening to be at its
greatest height) they are composed of both sorts, the
extent more spacious than ours; part laid out for
flowers, others for fruits; some standards, some
against walls or palisades, some for forest-trees and