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to\:v or five feet high ; and one old plant vvhicacarne 

 fr jrn Barbadotrs leveral years fmce, is more than twelve 

 feet hjch, but has i\M vc: produced any flowers. 

 Thel'j plants require to be plunged into a tan-bed in 

 the ftove, and in winter fhoulJ be fparingly watered, 

 bu: in fuinrncr zhty fho'jld.have it in greater plenty -, 

 when alfo they Pnould liave a good fliare of air admit- 

 ted to them when the weather is warm. With this 

 management tlic plants may be preferved very well, 

 but they arc diJicuk to propagate •, for I have laid 

 down many of their under branches into the earth, 

 but not one in twelve has put out root^s : I have alio 

 planted cuttings with as little fuccefs ; fo that the 

 fureft method is to procure frelh feeds from America, 

 \V O OD S and groves are tlie greatell ornaments to a 

 country feat,' therefore every feat is greatly defedlive 

 without them ; Wood and water being abiblutely 



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Thefe Wood-v/alks (hould not be lefs than eipht or 



nine feet broad in fmall Woods •, but in large ones fif- 

 teen feet will not be too much, and on each fulc of 



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ived by cutting of winding walks through 

 s to render them the moft delightful and 



neceiiary to render a place agreeable and pleafant. 

 Wliere there are Woods already grown to alargefize, 

 fo fituated as to be taken into the garden or park, or 

 iv) nearly adjoining, as that an eafy communication may 

 be made from the garden to the wood j they may be 



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them, as 



pleafant parts ot a feat (efpecially in the heat of fum- 



mer), when thofe walks aflford a goodly fhade from 

 tlie fcorehing heat of the fun. 



As I have already treated of the ufe and beauty of 

 wilderneiTes, and have given diredions for the making 

 and planting of them, I (lull not enlarge much upon 

 that head in this place ; .therefore I fhall only give 

 ■ fume Ihort inftru6lions,' for the cutting and making 



of thefe Wood walks in thofe places where perfons are 

 fo happy as to have any grown Woods, fo fituated as 

 to be near the habitation, and are either taken into 

 . the garden, or walks made from the houfe or garden, 

 . leading^'to them ; as alfo how to plant and decorate 

 .' the fides of thefe walks with ftirubs and flowers, fo 

 \ as to render them agreeable and pleafant ; and then I 

 fiaall more fully treat of the method to raife and im- 

 prove Woods, fo as to be of the greateft advantage to 

 the pofTcfiTor, and a public benefit to the nation. 

 ! Where perfons have the convenience of grown Woods 

 " near their habitation, fo as that there niay be an eafy 

 commAiniCation from one to the other, there will be 



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... little occarion for wilderneiTes' in the garden; fince 



the natural Woods may be fo contrived as to render 



them much pleafantcr than any new plantation can pof- 



, fibly arrive to within the compafs of twenty years, 



'.where the trees make tlie greatett progrefs in their 



r growth ; and in fuch places where their growth is flow, 



*^ there cannot be expedited fliade equal to ;he grown 





mav be nine or ten feet broad ; which may be fo ma- 

 nao-ed, as ro fliut out the view trom one part of th^- 

 walk to the other, at thofe times when the under 

 Wood is cut down, at which rimes there will be an 

 abfolute occafion for fuch plantations ; and at all 

 times they will afford great pleafure, by adding to the 

 variety, as alfo by their fragrant odour. The parti- 

 cular forts of flirubs which will thrive in the fhade of 

 Woods, as alfo the flowers proper to plant near thefe 

 walks, are mentioned in feparate lifls, at the end of 

 this work, fo I Ihall not infert them in this place. 

 The former method which was pradlifed in cutting of 

 thefe walks through Woods, was to have them as 

 ftrait as pofTible, fo that there was much trouble to 

 make fights through the Woods, for direftion how to 

 cut them ; but where this was pra6tifed, every tree 

 which flood in the line, good and bad, were cut 

 down, and many times boggy or bad ground was 

 taken into the walks -, fo that an expence of draining 

 and levelling, was necefl^ary to render them properfor 

 walking on -, befides this, there were many other in- 

 convenicncies attending' thefe flrait cuts through 

 Woods, as, firft, by letting in a great draught of air, 

 which in windy weather renders the walks unpleafant ^ 

 and thefe cuts will alfo appear at a great dift:ance from 



• the Woods, which will have a very bad effedt ; there- 



• fore the modern practice of twilling the walks through 

 Woods, is to be preferred. In the cutting of thefe 

 walks, there fliould be particular care taken to lead 

 them over the fmootheft and foundefl: part of the 

 ground, a^alfo to avoid cutting down the good trees; 

 fo that whenever thefe (land in the way, it will be bet- 

 ter to lead the walk on one fide, than to have the 

 tree fland in the middle ; for although fome perfons 

 may contend for the beauty of fuch trees which are 

 left flanding in walks, yet it muft be allowed, that un- 

 lefs the walk is made much broader in thofe places 

 than in the other, the trees will occafion obflruftions 

 to the walkers, efpeciaUy when two or three perfons 



fo that it will be much better 



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. . to have the walks entirely clear from trees •, and where 

 ,^ any large-fpreading trees fland near the walk, to cut 

 ,. away the fmall Wood, fo as to make an opening round 



* the trees, where there may be fome feats placed, for 



.perfons to refl under the fhade. The turns rnade ia 



thefe vvalks fliould be as_ eafy and natural as pofTi- 



...^ble ; nor Ihould there be too m'any of them, for that 



"''will render' the vvalking through them difagreeable ; 



Woody, in double that number of years ; but there is |:-';: therefore^ the great fkiU in ^making of thefe walks 

 V> riot only the pleafure of enjoying a prefent fhade from 



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V^^to walk through in order to get into tlie fhade ; if the 



-. -*.r.Wood is 01 Unall extent, then there will be a nfcelTity 



/;. for twiftino; the walks pretty much, fo as to make as 



";^-> Crouch walking as the compafs of ground will admit ; 



r but there fhould be care taken not to bring the turns 



■ - -fo near ^ach other, as that the two walks may be ex- 



pofed to each other, for want of a fufficient thicknefs 



^,-,pf Wpod between; but where the Wood is large, the 



X twifls of the walks fliould not approach nearer to each 



other tnan fifty or fixty feet -, or in very large Woods, 



/ they fhould be at a greater diflance ; .becaufe, when 



.^. the under Wood is cut down, which'will be abfolutely 



. necefiTary every tenth or twelfth year, according to its 



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growth, then the wallcs will be quite open* until the 



under. Wood grows up again,* unleis a border of 



, fhrul^s, Tntennixed with fome evergreens,.. is planted 



as poffible, fince they are eqiially difagreeable to per- 

 ^ -ions of true tafte.' V/hen a Wood is properly ma- 

 ,.,, naged in this way, and a few places properly left like 

 \Van open grove, where there are fome large trees fo fi- 

 v.^ Tuated as to form'them, there can be no gfeat^r orna- 



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We fhall how treat of the culture of Woods for profit 

 to the poflreflTor, and for the public benefit of the nation. 

 The great defl:ruaion of the Woods and foreils which 

 has been of late years made in this country, fhould 

 ; alarm every perfon who wifhes well to it \ fince there 

 ..is nothing which feems more fatally to threat^ a 

 'weakening, if not a difiTolutibn, of the flrength of 

 :,.. this once famous and flourifhing nation, than the no- 

 I torious decay of its timber j and as this deyaftadon 

 !^ has fpread through every part of the country, fo un- 

 ! lefs fome expedient be ferioufly and fpeedily rcfolved 

 -Voni to put a fl:op to this deflruftion of the timber, and 

 ' ' alfo for the future increafeof it^ one of the nioft glo- 

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