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and such as grow best in consort, as the elm, ash, 

 limetree, sycamore, firr, pine, Gfc. Regard is likewise 

 to be had to the quality of the soil, for this work : 

 v. g. If trees that affect cold and moist grounds, 

 be planted in hot and dry places, then set them at 

 closer order ; but trees which love dry and thirsty 

 grounds, at farther distance : The like rule may also 

 guide in situations expos'd to impetuous winds and 

 other accidents, which may serve for general rules in 

 this piece of tactics. In the mean time, if you plant 

 for regular walks, or any single trees, a competent 

 elevation of the earth in circle, arid made a little 

 hollow like a shallow bason (as I already mention'd) 

 for the reception of water, and refreshing the roots ; 

 sticking thorns about the edges to protect them from 

 cattel, were not amiss. Fruit-trees thus planted, if 

 beans be set about them, produces a little crop, and 

 will shade the surface, perhaps, without any detri- 

 ment : But this more properly belongs to Pomona. 

 Most shrubs of ever-green and some trees may be 

 planted very near one another ; myrtles, laurel, bays, 

 Cyprus, yew, ivy, pomegranates, and others, also need 

 little distance, and indeed whatever is proper to 

 make hedges : But for the oak, elm, wall-nut, firs, 

 and the taller timber-trees, let the dismal effects of the 

 late hurricane (never to be forgotten) caution you 

 never to plant them too near the mansion, (or indeed 

 any other house) that so if such accident happen, 

 their fall and ruin may not reach them. 



9. To leave nothing omitted which may contri- 

 bute to the stability of our transplanted trees, some- 

 thing is to be premis'd concerning their staking, and 

 securing from external injuries, especially from 

 winds and cattel ; against both which, such as are 



