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the enclosure too. Therefore it will be necessary, 

 first, to enquire a little, what figures they be that 

 may thus be planted ; secondly, how to plant such 

 as will not admit of this order ; and lastly, how to 

 plant these several wayes. 



The figures that may be planted every way in 

 rows are many ; yet for brevity's sake I shall men- 

 tion but few, as oblong and geometrical squares, 

 see figs. .5, 6, 7, 8, 9; rhombus, see fig. 10; rhomboides, 

 see fig. 11 ; oxygon or equilateral triangle, see fig. 

 12 ; orthogon or right-angled triangle, see fig. 13 ; 

 ambligon or triangle with one and two acute tri- 

 angles, see fig. 14 ; a sort of trapezium, see fig. 15 ; 

 hexagon, see fig. 16 ; octagon, as the whole of fig. 

 2. These regular polygones are the nearest way 

 for planting a circle. 



Many more figures there are, both regular and 

 irregular, that will admit of this order ; but these 

 may suffice for illustration. As for these that will 

 not, you may plant them parallel to as many sides 

 as you can, and let the rest fall as they will. 



Now as to the several wayes, so farr as I know, 

 there are but three principal wayes of planting, 

 every way lineal, although there be more built 

 thereon, viz. squair, rhombus and triangle. In the 



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