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¶A perfite Platforme of a Hoppe garden
AT what time necessitie, or anye other good consideration shall mooue you to deuyse for a Hoppe garden, you are to consider of these three thynges.
First, whether you haue, or can procure vnto your selfe, any grounde good for that purpose.
Secondly, of the conuenient standing therof.
Thirdly, of the quantitie.
And this I saye by the waye, if the grounde that you deale withall, be not your owne enheri∣taunce, procure vnto your selfe some certayne terme therein, least another man reape the fruite of your traueyle and charge.
Of apt and vnapt grounde for Hoppes.
SOme holde at this daye (and Auncient wryters wytnesse the same) that earth being salt and bitter of taste,* 1.1 is neyther good, nor apt to be made good.
It is also often written, and generally recey∣ued, that such earth as you shall see whyte and bare (that is to saye) wholy chalke, or all sande lacking a mixture of perfyte earth,* 1.2 or if it bee clayie, or so drie,* 1.3 as thereby it shall gape or coane in the summer, is naught. &c.