The First Design.
THe first Design is a General Draught, to be done on the back-side of some great Palace, or House of Pleasure, which is of about 310 Toi∣ses in length, and 220 in breadth, which is somewhat near the true Propor∣tion requisite to all Gardens, that is about a third part longer then wide; that so all the Partitions which are to be made in the said General Draught, may have a Parallelogramick Form, as may be seen in our hindmost Draught, except the Knots, which we have made square by reason of their crossing Alleys, which we have drawn Diagonally, to vary the ordinary custom. The said Knots are of 60 Toises square, in the Main-work, that is to say without the outward Walkes; all the Alleys from 4 to 5 Toises in breadth: the which Knots we have set down in large, that they might be the easier comprehended and performed in the Working: They fol∣low the two General Draughts, Fol. 3 , and 4 . The first is, the Knot in Embroidery: The second is, the Compartiment of Turff, in which the four half ovals are on the out-side, which we have done for variety, and as that which may serve to be put alone in some other place. The half∣ovals may be also plac't inwardly, to answer to the symmetrie or proporti∣ons of the Knot in Embroidery; and that by taking away the four Foun∣tains out of the four Triangles, and placing there Statues upon their Piede∣stals, according as they are marked in the said Draught.
After these Knots follow the Wildernesses, Plants of Trees, Ponds, and Grass-plots; in the midst of which may be erected Arbors, and Summer Banquetting-Houses, for several divertisements: As concerning the Trees to be planted; Lime-Trees should be used and not Elmes, by reason that the Lime-trees spread not their roots so wide in the Earth, as Elms do; which I hold fit to be banished absolutely from Gardens, for the in∣conveniency that their great Roots bring to Gardens, to the damage of whatsoever is therein planted of curious, except it be in the outward Al∣leys, of which we have made heretofore mention.
But now let us come back to the deduction of all the parts of our first ge∣neral Draught, to which, if it be possible, water should be brought through channels of 10 Toises breadth, whose Alleys on each side should be two or three foot lower then the others, and the Water almost even with the brim of the said Alleys, with steps at every meeting of the Capital or chief Al∣leys;