doth not eaſily breake or ſpoile without much iniury, and keepeth vp a knot for a very long time in his due proportion: but in my opinion, the Leade is ouer-hot for Summer, and ouer-cold for Winter. Others doe take Oaken inch boords, and ſawing them foure or fiue inches broad, do hold vp their knot therewith: but in that theſe boordes cannot bee drawne compaſſe into any ſmall ſcantling, they muſt ſerue rather for long outright beds, or ſuch knots as haue no rounds, halfe rounds, or compaſſings in them. And beſides, theſe boordes are not long laſting, becauſe they ſtand continually in the weather, eſpecially the ends where they are faſtened together will ſooneſt rot and periſh, and ſo the whole forme will be ſpoyled. To preuent that fault, ſome others haue choſen the ſhanke bones of Sheep, which after they haue beene well cleanſed and boyled, to take out the fat from them, are ſtucke into the ground the ſmall end downewards, and the knockle head vpwards, and thus being ſet ſide to ſide, or end to end cloſe together, they ſet out the whole knot therewith, which heads of bones although they looke not white the firſt yeare, yet after they haue abiden ſome froſts and heates will become white, and prettily grace out the ground: but this inconuenience is incident to them, that the Winter froſts will raiſe them out of the ground oftentimes, and if by chance the knockle head of any doe breake, or be ſtrucke off with any ones foot, &c. going by, from your ſtore, that lyeth by you of the ſame ſort, ſet another in the place, hauing firſt taken away the broken peece: although theſe will laſt long in forme and order, yet becauſe they are but bones many miſlike them, and indeed I know but few that vſe them. Tyles are alfo vſed by ſome, which by reaſon they may bee brought compaſſe into any faſhion many are pleaſed with them, who doe not take the whole Tyle at lengthſ but halfe Tyles, and other broken peeces ſet ſomewhat deepe into the ground, that they may ſtand faſt, and theſe take vp but little roome, and keepe vp the edge of the beds and knots in a pretty comely manner, but they are often out of frame, in that many of them are broken and ſpoiled, both with mens feete paſſing by, the weather and weight of the earth beating them downe and breaking them, but eſpecially the froſts in Winter doe ſo cracke off their edges, both at the toppes and ſides that ſtand cloſe one vnto another, that they muſt be continually tended and repaired with freſh and ſound ones put in the place of them that are broken or decayed. And laſtly (for it is the lateſt inuention) round whitiſh or blewiſh pebble stones, of ſome reaſonable proportion and bigneſſe, neither too great nor too little, haue beene vſed by ſome to be ſet, or rather in a manner but laide vpon the ground to faſhion out the traile or knot, or all along by the large grauelly walke ſides to ſet out the walke, and maketh a pretty handſome ſhew, and becauſe the ſtones will not decay with the iniuries of any time or weather, and will be placed in their places againe, if any ſhould be thruſt out by any accident, as alſo that their ſight is ſo conſpicuous vpon the ground, eſpecially it they be not hid with the ſtore of herbes growing in the knot; is accounted both tor durability, beauty of the ſight, handſomneſſe in the worke, and eaſe in the working and charge, to be of all other dead materials the chiefeſt. And thus, Gentlemen, I haue ſhewed you all the varieties that I know are vsed by any in our Countrey, that are worth the reciting (but as for the faſhion of Iawe-bones, vſed by ſome in the Low Countries, and other places beyond the Seas, being too groſſe and baſe, I make no mention ot them) among which euery one may take what pleaſeth him beſt, or may moſt fitly be had, or may beſt agree with the ground or knot. Moreouer, all theſe herbes that ſerue for borderings, doe ſerue as well to be ſet vpon the ground of a leuelled knot; that is, where the allies and foot-pathes are of the ſame leuell with the knot, as they may ſerue alſo for the railed knot, that is, where the beds of the knot are raiſed higher than the allies; but both Leade, Boordes, Bones, and Tyles, are only for the raiſed ground, be it knot or beds. The pebble ſtones againe are onely for the leuelled ground, becauſve they are so ſhallow, that as I ſaid before, they rather lye vpon the earth than are thruſt any way into it. All this that I haue here ſet downe, you muſt vnderſtand is proper for the knots alone of a Garden. But for to border the whole ſquare or knot about, to ſerue as a hedge thereunto, euery one taketh what liketh him beſt; as either Priuet alone, or ſweete Bryer, and white Thorne enterlaced together, and Roſes of one, or two, or more ſorts placed here and there amongſt them. Some alſo take Lauander, Roſemary, Sage, Southernwood, Lauander Cotton, or ſome ſuch other thing. Some againe plant Cornell Trees, and plaſh them, or keepe them lowe, to
