Palissy the potter Author:Henry Morley Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. FURTHER CONTENTS OF THE BOOK—THE GARDEN AND THE FORTRESS. The third of the four treatises included in the second work of Bernard Palissy displ... more »ays his plan for a delectable garden. Still using his accustomed form of dialogue, he states that he should like to form a garden after his own heart, in some place where there are hills. He desires a hilly place, in order that he may be able to lead springs down from the high ground, to flow in a rivulet about his garden in the valley. There are in France, he says, more than four thousand noble houses, situated near spots convenient for his purpose; such spots being especially abundant along the course of the Loire, the Gironde, the Garonne, the Lot, the Tar, and almost all the other rivers. "Question. Tell me, then, how you propose to ornament your garden, after you shall have bought the site? " Answer. In the first place, I will mark the quadratureof my garden of such length and breadth as may seem requisite, and I will make the said quadrature in some plain that is bounded by mountains, highlands, or rocks, on the sides of the north wind and the west wind, in order that the said mountains, highlands, and rocks, may serve me in the things of which I presently shall tell you. I will take care also to fix the situation of my garden below some spring of water issuing from the said rocks, and coming from a high place ; and that done, I will make my said quadrature: but wherever it may be, I will build my garden in a spot where it may have a meadow below it, so that one may pass sometimes from the said garden into the meadow; and this for reasons which shall be hereafter adduced. And having thus made good the situation of the garden, I will proceed then to divide it into four equal parts. There shall be a great walk fo...« less