2 !4 Of Woods and Groves ^ 8ccl 

 Strength of the Roma?} Battle 5 from which, 

 and from innumerable other Confider^tions, 

 the ingenious Sir Thomas Brown^ in his well- 

 known elaborate Eflay on the Gardens of 

 Cyprus^ has eftablifh'd this Qiiincuncial Me- 

 thod, And Julim C^far^ in his Approaches 

 to the ftrong Town of Alife^ in his Lines of 

 Circumvallation, fixd in Stakes up tp the 

 Head, after this Manner, in order to baffle 

 the Gaids in their Aflaults^ gs we learn 

 from h\%.Co?nme7itaries, 



And the ancient Authors, Varro^ jQuintili' 

 an^ and the aforemention'dJ^Gwrriwj, recom- 

 mend it as highly beautiful ^ but Virgil^ in 

 particular, recommends it for its yfe too : 



1^071 anhnum rnodo uti pafcat profpeElus inanemy 

 §ed quia non aliter vires dabit omnibus ^^qiias 

 Terra, neque in vacimm poterimt fe extender e 

 rami, Virg. Georg, ?. 



But we may obferve, that the Advantage 

 pf this Qiiincuncial Method is fo much be- 

 yond the Quadrate, th^t an Acre of Ground, 

 where they are planted at equal Diftances in 



" the Rows, this Way, will have at leaft a fifth 

 Part of the Number of Trees more than the 0- 



,ther, and that by Means of their alternate 

 PifpofitioD. And this is particularly a very 

 good Way in planting of an Orchard, or any 

 pther Plantation, where the Planters woujd 

 difpofe of as npany Trees as they Ccin, 



