TREATING OF CONTRIVANCE 



This is also applicable to forrest-trees, seeing, while 

 they are young, they afford little shelter, except 

 they are more than ordinary thick ; and yet, when 

 they grow up, cannot prosper to that stately magni- 

 tude you would desire, unless the same care is used, 

 viz., the removal of each second row, which may 

 be effectually planted about the bordures of your 

 corn-land, meadow, and'pasture; which now needs 

 no fence, except a few thorns stuck about to keep 

 the cattle from rubbing. In orchards, if the short 

 rowes be cherries and plumes, they, not being long- 

 lived, will be past their best before the apples and 

 pears, which may be in the long rowes, require 

 their room from them. 



The methode is this ; you must mark out the plot 

 round about, and view from angle to angle of each 

 geometrical squair : but then the distance of the 

 outer-row must be greater than in the first way ; 

 otherwise the trees will stand much nearer : as 7 

 is to 5, so is the distance of the trees through the 

 plot. 



Or you may plant it by viewing from opposite 

 sides, as in my first way, only you must plant the 

 out-line of stakes round about, at half the former 

 distance, and let the stake-setter pass by every other 



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