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dircc'.c! ts :n general. See Plax- 



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AH ts of trees may be employed 



to diver- ornamental plantations in out- 



f;rounds, and in forming clumps in spaci 

 awns, parks, and other extensive open spat 

 the evergreen kinds in particular have great me- 

 rit for ail ornamental purposes in pleasure- 

 grounds and plantation-. And all the larger 

 growing; kinds, both deciduous, and evergreens, 

 are highly valuable as forest-trees for timber: but 

 the first sort claims precedence as a timber-tree, 

 for its prodigious height and bulk, and superior 

 worth of the wood. 



In planting any of the species for ornament 

 or variety in large pleasure-grounds, some mas- 

 be disposed in assemblage in any continued 

 plantation, some in clumps, and others sii 



QUICK, a term applied to signify any sort of 

 young plant, but especially those of the white- 

 thorn kind. Ev it is also often understood a live 

 hedge, of whatever plants composed, in contra- 

 distinction to a dead hvdge, but more properly 

 the shrubs of which such live hedge is formed. 

 In a strict sense it is however applied to the 

 Cratcpgu> oxyacantha, or Hawthorn, the young 

 plants or set= of which are commonly sold bv 

 the nurserv-gardeners under the name of Qui - k. 

 In the choice of these sets, those which are 

 raised in the nursery are in general to be pre- 

 ferred to such as are drawn out of the woods, 

 as the latter have seldom good roots : many per- 

 sons, however, prefer them, as they are larger 



plants than are commonly to be had i'i the 

 nursery. See Crataegus. 



QUINC l NX, in gardening-, is a form of 

 planting in which the trees are planted by ti , .-.<-, 

 four of them forming a square, and the fifth 

 placed in the middle, 

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thus * and may be repeated over and 



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 over in one continued plantation, with as many 

 trees in several ranges as may be proper. It was 

 formerly a fashionable mode of planting groves 

 and other regular plantations. It is seen more 

 fully below : 



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Something of this mode of arrangement ha* 

 always a good effect in the disposition of shrub- 

 bery-plants, Sec, though not in the regular or- 

 der of it, but something nearly so, which gi\T- 

 the shrubs a greater scope of growth, and shows 

 them to greal -r advantage. It is likewise a 

 mode of planting that is proper in the kitchen- 

 garden, in transplanting many kinds of esculent 

 plants ; such as lettuces, endive, strawberries, 

 and i ven all the cabbage kinds, and many other 

 plants, which gives them a greater scope to grow 

 than if planted exactly square at the samedi- 

 stance from each other. 



QUICKEN TREK. See Sorb. ■>. 



QUINCE TREE. Sec Pykus Cydoxia. 



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RACER, a name applied to a sort of sward- 

 cutter, or cutting implement used in racing 

 out or cutting through the surface of grass sward, 

 and dividing it into proper widths, lengths, and 

 thickness, for turf intended to be cut up for lay- 

 ing in pleasure-grounds, and always necessary 

 preparatory to the work of fl lying or cutting up 

 the turf with the turfing-iron. It is also useful 

 for cutting and straightening the edges of grass 

 - in such grounds. 

 It i> a simple tool, consisting of a strong 

 wooden handle about four feet long, having the 

 cutter fixed at the lower end in the form of a 

 half moon with the edge downward, to cut into 

 the sward j the handle should be about an inch 



and half thick, growing gradually thicker to- 

 wards the lower end. See Plate on Implk- 

 mknts. 



In using it is pushed forward so as to cut or 

 race out the sward in an expeditious manner. 



In cutting turfs with it, it is necessary tir<t to 

 mark out on the sward the width oi the turf in- 

 tended, which should generally be a foot wide 

 and a yard long, and about an inch or inch and 

 a halt deep; then -train a lint tight, first length- 

 ways, striking the rater into the sward close to 

 the hue, running it along expeditiously so as to 

 cut its way, and divide the sward to a proper 

 depth, afterwards placing the line a foot further, 

 and racing it out as before, and so on to as many 



