Sed. II* of Foreft Trees. 247 



The Stakes ought to be full 7 Foot 6 Inches ^^"^^^ ^/ 

 long, that is, 2 Foot 6 Inches in the Ground, ^uheTjor 

 and 5 Foot out of the Ground : The great /ec«r/«^ 

 Danger in this Cafe is the Wounding the ^'^'^^^• 

 Roots of the new-planted Tree, in driving the 

 Stakes down, of which efpecial Care ought 

 to be taken. 



But I have feen another Method of Fencing, 

 fomething like this, cheaper, but not fo du- 

 rable 5 which is at a Perfon of Quality's, 

 whofe Politenefs in Gardening I have already 

 made forae mention of, and (hall more in the 

 enfuing Difcourfe. 



The Labourers there take three Oak, Ha- Another 

 zle, or other Stakes, of about fix Foot long, ^^y f/ 

 and drive them clofe down, as is above di-'^^''^^"^* 

 reded, to the Stems of the Trees 3 they 

 notch the Top of thefe Stakes round, and tie 

 them and the Tree together with Tarpaulin, 

 as they there call it, (Tar Cord) much us'd 

 in Sea-Affairs ^ this, they told me, would laft 

 two or three Years 5 that the Expence was 

 very fmall, (and only required fome Care now 

 and then in looking them over) not above a 

 Peny each Tree. 



I have already mentioned, that by piling the i\^o Ocufhn 

 Earth on fo high upon the Roots, there is no ?^ ^*^^^''- 

 manner of Occafion for Watering 5 for if you '"^' 

 once begin, then you muft continue it 3 only 

 I have thought that once Watering at firft 

 Planting would be of confiderable Ufe in the 

 Setling the Earth about the Roots 3 but this, I 

 R 4 remember. 



