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/pendent to them 5 planting the 

 Sides of the Walks with Hedges of 

 Lime, Elm, Hornbeam^ &€. and the 

 Quarters within are planted with 

 various Kinds of Trees promif- 

 cuoufly without Order. But this 

 can by no means be efteemcd a 

 judicious Method, becaufe hereby 

 there will be a great Expence in 

 keeping the Hedges of a large Wil- 

 dcrnefs in good Order, which in- 

 flcad of being beautiful, are rather 

 the reverfe , for as thefe Parts of a 

 Garden fhould, in a great meafure, 

 be defigned from Nature, fo what- 

 ever has the fliff Appearance ot 

 Art, does by no means correfpond 

 therewith. Befides thefe Hedges 

 arc generally train'd up fo high as 

 to obftrudt the Sight from the 

 Trees in the Quarters, which ought 

 never to be done. 



In the next place, the Walks are 

 commonly made to interfcdl each 

 other in Angles, which alfo fhews 

 too formal and trite for I'uch Plan- 

 tations, and are by no means com- 

 parable to fuch Walks as have the 

 Appearance of Meanders or Laby- 

 rinths, where the Eye can't difco- 

 ver more than twenty or thirty 

 Yards in Length ; and the more 

 thefe Walks arc turned, the greater 

 Plcafure they will afford. Thefe 

 (hould now and then lead into an 

 open circular Piece of Grafs ; in 

 the Center ot which may be pla- 

 ced cither an Obelisk, Statue, or 

 Fou?itain j and if in the Middle 

 Part of the Wilderncfs there be 

 contrived a large Opening, in the 

 Center of which may be eredlcd a 

 Dome or Banqueting Houfe, fur- 

 rounded with a green Plot of Grafs, 

 it will be a coniiderable Addition 

 to the Beauty of the Plice. 



From the Sides of the Walks 

 and Openings, the Trees Ihould rife 

 gradually one above anorlicr to the 



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Middle of the Quarters, where 

 fhould always be planted the largefl 

 growing Trees, To that the Heads 

 of all the Trees will appear to the 

 View ; but their Stems will be hid 

 from Sight, which will have a 

 vaffly different EfFe(St from the 

 common Method, where the Trees 

 are planted large and fmall, with- 

 out any Order, fo that many times 

 the largeft are next the Sight, and 

 fmall ones behind them, jufl accor- 

 ding as it happens J in which man- 

 ner the fmall ones, being overhung 

 and fhaded, do feldom thrive well. 



But in order to plant a Wilder- 

 ncfs with Judgment, the ufual 

 Growth of all the different Sorts of 

 Trees fliould be well confidered, 

 that each may be placed according 

 io the Magnitude to which they 

 generally grow ; otherwife, if they 

 are at firfl planted one above ano- 

 ther, as before direded, they will 

 not continue to grow in this Or- 

 der many Years j for fbme Sorts 

 will greatly out-grow the others, 

 and thereby render the Plantation 

 lefs beautiful ; but when they arc 

 placed according to their ufual 

 manner of growing, they will al- 

 ways continue nearly in the fame 

 Order, which renders them very 

 entertaining to the Sight. 



Thefe Trees fliould alfo be al- 

 low'd a proportionable Diftance, 

 according to their Growth, and 

 not crowded fo clofe as is com- 

 monly pradis'd, whereby there are 

 four times the Number of Trees 

 planted which need bej and this 

 clofe planting caufes them to af^ 

 pire to a great Height, but then 

 they want the noble Dilfufion of 

 Branches, which is vaflly more a- 

 greeable to the Sight than a Parcel 

 of thin, taper Stems, v/ith fcarce- 

 ly cny Heads, as is too often the 

 Cafe in fome of the large ft Gar- 

 dens 



