TREATING OF CONTRIVANCE 



at 4, 5, or 6 ells ; if circular figures, or the like, at 

 2, 3, or 4 ells, or as the figure is small or great : and 

 plant so as they may shew the figure to this use 

 well. 



Some trees require a wider distance than others ; 

 and of consequence these that grow greatest must 

 have the largest distance assigned them. 



Note that you intermix not great trees and small 

 trees in planting, neither quick growers and slow 

 growers : for I observe a kind of emulation amongst 

 them. 



CHAPTER III 



HOW TO PLANT THICKETS AND ORCHARDS 



As the ground where you plant must be inclosed, 

 so must the trees stand at some distance off the 

 fence : if it be a wall whereon are wall-trees, let 

 the standards be at least four of their own distances 

 from the same, that the sun may not be kept off 

 the wall by the height of the trees ; and if you design 

 fine walks round the wall, plant the row next to it 

 with dwarf -trees or some low hedge, and the trees 

 half a distance off such ; if the enclosure be a hedge, 

 observe the same rule. Also let the trees be parallel 

 to the enclosure : but every plot will not suffer to 

 be planted every way lineal, and stand parallel to 



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