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For the side grounds, you are to fill them with variety of alleys, private, to give a full shade, some of them, wheresoever the sun be.  You are to frame some of them, likewise, for shelter, that when the wind blows sharp you may walk as in a gallery.  And those alleys must be likewise hedged at 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 would 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 wall 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 fruittrees, and arbors 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 overcast 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 nesting, and that no foulness appear in the floor of the aviary.  So I have made a 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 less cost set their things together;  and sometimes add statuas and such things for state and magnificence, but nothing to the true pleasure of a garden.

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