itchen garden.

_E._ Bridge.

_F._ Conduit.

_G._ Staires.

_H._ Walkes set with great wood thicke.

_I._ Walkes set with great wood round about your Orchard.

_K._ The out fence.

_L._ The out fence set with stone-fruite.

_M._ Mount. To force earth for a mount, or such like set it round with
quicke, and lay boughes of trees strangely intermingled tops inward,
with the earth in the midle.

_N._ Still-house.

_O._ Good standing for Bees, if you haue an house.

_P._ If the riuer run by your doore, & vnder your mount, it will be
pleasant.}

CHAP. 6.

_Of Fences._

{SN: Effects of euill fencing.}
{SN: Let the fence be your owne.}
All your labour past and to come about an Orchard is lost vnlesse you
fence well. It shall grieue you much to see your young sets rubd loose
at the rootes, the barke pild, the boughes and twigs cropt, your fruite
stolne, your trees broken, and your many yeares labours and hopes
destroyed, for want of fences. A chiefe care must be had in this point.
You must therefore plant in such a soile, where you may prouide a
conuenient, strong and seemely fence. For you can possesse no goods,
that haue so many enemies as an orchard, looke Chapter 13. Fruits are so
delightsome, and desired of so many (nay, in a manner of all) and yet
few will be at cost and take paines to prouide them. Fence well
therefore, let your plot be wholly in your owne power, that you make all
your fence your selfe: for neighbours fencing is none at all, or very
carelesse. Take heed of a doore or window, (yea of a wall) of any other
mans into your orchard: yea, though it be nayld vp, or the wall be high,
for perhaps they will proue theeues.

{SN: Kinds of fences, earthen walles.}
All Fences commonly are made of Earth, Stone, Bricke, Wood, or both
earth and wood. Dry wall of earth, and dry Ditches, are the worst fences
saue pales or railes, and doe waste the soonest, vnlesse they be well
copt with glooe and morter, whereon at _Mighill-tide_ it will be good to
sow Wall-flowers, commonly called Bee-flowers, or winter Gilly-flowers,
because they will grow (though amongst stones) and abide the strongest
frost and drought, continually greene and flowring euen in Winter, and
haue a pleasant smell, and are timely, (that is, they will floure the
first and last of flowers) and are good for Bees. And your earthen wall
is good for Bees dry and warme. But these fences are both vnseemly,
euill to repaire, and onely for