2 1 2, of Woods and Groves^ Sec. 



This Defign may alfo be turn'd to a regulat 

 VViidernefs, or a promifcuous open Grove, as 

 well as this (as may fome of the others I have 

 given) which will, I hope, make them the 

 more acceptable. 



Obfervations on Plate 34, Fig, i, 2. 



'Tis certain, that the Qjiadrate and Qyin- 

 cuncial Manner of planting and ranging 

 Trees, is the inoft ancient, fince it is con- 

 firmed from Abydeniis^ Eufebim^ and others, 

 that that was the Form of the Ha?iging Gar- 

 deiis of Babylon^ as defcrib'd by ^ Lurtim 5 

 and in the memorable Garden of Alcinom^ an- 

 ciently conceiv'd (as Sir Thomas Brown words 

 it) an Original Fancy from Paradife^ there is 

 Mention made of well-contriv'd Order. Di- 

 omedes^ (as the fame Author quotes him) de* 

 fcribing the rural PoflelTions of his Father, 

 gives an Account, in the fame Language, of 

 Trees orderly planted 5 and Vlyffes^ being a 

 Boy, was promised by his Father forty Fig- 

 Trees, and fifty Rows of Vines producing all 

 Kinds of Grapes. 



The Author of the Theory and PraBic^ 

 of Gardenings has, in his excellent Book 

 tranilated by Mr. Jatnes^ given us a Spe- 

 cimen of what he calls Planting in jQumcuncey 

 in which he is in this miftaken 3 becaufe, 

 in his Defign, the Trees are all plant- 

 ed fquare, or at Right Angles, when, in 

 Truth, the Qiiincuncial Difpofition of Trees, 



is 



