PURTENANCE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Purtenance

... details. "The garden is best to be square," was Lord Bacon's rule; "the form that men like in general is a square, though roundness be forma perfectissima," was Lawson's rule; and this form was chosen because the garden was considered to be a purtenance and continuation of the house, designed so as strictly to harmonize with the architecture of the building. And Parkinson's advice was to the same effect: "The orbicular or round form is held in its own proper ...

— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe