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44- THE GARDENS OF EPICURUS
round it) should be a parterre for flowers, or grass-
plots bordered with flowers ; or if, according to the
newest mode, it be cast all into grass-plots and gravel-
walks, the dryness of these should be relieved with
fountains, and the plainness of those with statues;
otherwise, if large, they have an ill effect upon the eye.
However, the part next the house should be open, and
no other fruit but upon the walls. If this take up one
half of the garden, the other should be fruit-trees,
unless some grove for shade lie in the middle. If it
take up a third part only, then the next third may be
dwarf-trees, and the last standard-fruit ; or else the
second part fruit-trees, and the third all sorts of winter-
greens, which provide for all seasons of the year.
I will not enter upon any account of flowers, having
only pleased myself with seeing or smelling them, and
not troubled myself with the care, which is more the
ladies’ part than the men’s ; but the success is wholly in
the gardener. For fruits, the best we have in England,
or I believe can ever hope for, are of peaches, the
white and red Maudlin, the Minion, the Chevreuse, the
Ramboullet, the Musk, the Admirable, which is late ;
all the rest are either varified by names, or not to be
named with these, nor worth troubling a garden, in my
opinion. Of the pavies or hard peaches, I know none
round it) should be a parterre for flowers, or grass-
plots bordered with flowers ; or if, according to the
newest mode, it be cast all into grass-plots and gravel-
walks, the dryness of these should be relieved with
fountains, and the plainness of those with statues;
otherwise, if large, they have an ill effect upon the eye.
However, the part next the house should be open, and
no other fruit but upon the walls. If this take up one
half of the garden, the other should be fruit-trees,
unless some grove for shade lie in the middle. If it
take up a third part only, then the next third may be
dwarf-trees, and the last standard-fruit ; or else the
second part fruit-trees, and the third all sorts of winter-
greens, which provide for all seasons of the year.
I will not enter upon any account of flowers, having
only pleased myself with seeing or smelling them, and
not troubled myself with the care, which is more the
ladies’ part than the men’s ; but the success is wholly in
the gardener. For fruits, the best we have in England,
or I believe can ever hope for, are of peaches, the
white and red Maudlin, the Minion, the Chevreuse, the
Ramboullet, the Musk, the Admirable, which is late ;
all the rest are either varified by names, or not to be
named with these, nor worth troubling a garden, in my
opinion. Of the pavies or hard peaches, I know none