194 SHRUBS AND TREES. 



have a fine eiFeft : fome in continued planta- 

 tions round, next the boundary of the park. Sec 

 varying in width in a kind of natural order, 

 in moderate proje^ions and fweeps, &-c. out- 

 ward and inward, with openings at intervals, 

 and with walks or rides through tiie plantation ; 

 having lower trees, or common Ihrubs next the 

 walks, &c. likewife in the internal divisions, 

 having trees of various kinds difpofed in larger 

 or fmaller compartments, and in groves, 

 clumps, groups, avenues, and in fmgle or 

 double ranges, fome Itrait, others curved, or 

 more or lefs bending, and in fweeps, 6zc» 

 with fometimes trees dotted fingfy, or two, 

 three, and feveral together in groups, varied 

 in different fituations. 



Likewife have foreft tree kinds planted 

 along the borders, and in the corners of field? 

 they will appear ornamental, fhelter th?f 

 ground, &c. and in time turn to advanta|^e 

 for loppings and timber. 



With regard to the order and diftance of 

 planting in making the dirFerent tree planta- 

 tions, the compartments deligned for clofe 

 planting in the Ihrubbery or thicketty order, 

 fhould be digged ; but for open plan ring in 

 the grove, or in wide diHancts it may be 

 generally grafs grocnd, and in refpeil to the 

 dillances of planting, it lliould be vaaed in 

 different degrees, from five, or fix' feet, to 

 ten, twenty, c5r moie, in fome places may 

 have compartments in imitnion of wood'> 

 and thickets, without any reguLir Ofder of 



planting; 



