_Qvam magno pandis Floræ penetralia nixu Atque facis cœlo liberiore frui? Omnibus vt placeas, ô quam propensa voluntas, Solicitusque labor nocte dieque premit? Quam magno cultum studio conquirere in hortum Herbarum quicquid mundus in orbe tenet, Immensus sumptus, multosque extensus in annos Te labor afficiunt? & data nulla quies. Talia quærenti, surgit novus ardor habendi, Nec tibi tot soli munera magna petis; Descriptos vivâ profers sub imagine flores, Tum profers mensæ quicquid & hortus alit, Laudatos nobis fructus & promis honores, Profers, quas celebrant nullibi scripta virum, Herbarum species, quibus est quoque grata venustas: Sic nos multiplici munere, Amice, beas. Hoc cape pro meritis, florum dum gratia floret, Suntque herbis vires; en tibi Nomen erit. In serum semper tua gloria floreat ævum, Gloria quæ in longum non peritura diem._ Thomas Iohnson vtriusque Societatis consors. [Illustration: IOANNIS PARKINSONI PHARMACOPŒI LONDINENSIS EFFIGIES · LXII ÆTATIS ANNVM AGENTIS · A NATO CHRISTO CIↃDCXXIX ✻] THE ORDERING OF THE GARDEN OF PLEASVRE. CHAP. I. _The situation of a Garden of pleasure, with the nature of soyles, and how to amend the defects that are in many sorts of situations and grounds._ The seuerall situations of mens dwellings, are for the most part vnauoideable and vnremoueable; for most men cannot appoint forth such a manner of situation for their dwelling, as is most fit to auoide all the inconueniences of winde and weather, but must bee content with such as the place will afford them; yet all men doe well know, that some situations are more excellent than others: according therfore to the seuerall situation of mens dwellings, so are the situations of their gardens also for the most part. And although diuers doe diuersly preferre their owne seuerall places which they haue chosen, or wherein they dwell; As some those places that are neare vnto a riuer or brooke to be best for the pleasantnesse of the water, the ease of transportation of themselues, their friends and goods, as also for the fertility of the soyle, which is seldome bad neare vnto a riuers side; And others extoll the side or top of an hill, bee it small or great, for the prospects sake; And againe, some the plaine or champian ground, for the euen leuell thereof: euery one of which, as they haue their commodities accompanying them, so haue they also their discommodities belonging vnto them, according to the Latine Prouerbe, _Omne commodum fert suum incommodum_. Yet to shew you for euerie of these situations which is the fittest place to plant your garden in, and how to defend it from the iniuries of the cold windes and frosts that may annoy it, will, I hope, be well accepted. And first, for the water side, I suppose the North side of the water to be the best side for your garden, that it may haue the comfort of the