SHRUBS AND TREES. \g^ 



pknting ; others mav be more thinly difpofed, 

 and fome planted in irregular and regular 

 open and clofe groves on grafs grounds, in 

 rows, from ten, to fifteen, or twenty feet 

 diftance, and fome planted to form avenues 

 of twenty, thirty, to fifty, era hundred feet 

 wide, in confiderable premiies, with trees of 

 different forts, at ten, to twenty, or thirty 

 icct diftant in the rows. 



Shrubberies are plantations compofed of a 

 variety of flowering fhrubs, and the lower 

 Older of ornamental trees difpofed in the 

 pleafure-ground, both in detached clumps of 

 ▼arious forms and diiterent fizes along the 

 lides of lawns, and other compartments o/ 

 fpacious grafs fpaces, and grand walks, as 

 likewife in running plantations, extending 

 along next the fides of lawns, grand walks, 

 and the outward boundaries of the pleafure- 

 gronnds, park, fields, with ferpentine gravel 

 <Mr fand walks, extending through the middle^ 

 cr in front ; and for which flirubberies, a great 

 viifiety of beautiful ftowering (hrubs and ever- 

 greens may be introduced : in fome places have 

 clumps entirely of deciduous ihjubs, others 

 wholly of evergreens, in a lort of alternate 

 order; and have alfo fome bcth in detached 

 clomps, and running fhrubberies, diverfified 

 with deciduous and evergreen ihrubs toge- 

 ther; always having fome of the moil beau- 

 tiful evergreens towards the front, confpicu- 

 otts to fight, and to give the plantations a 

 chearful afped in Winter. 



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