256 ORNAMENTAL PLANTATIONS. 



placed in a foil and fituation improper for it, be a 

 wretched deformity, and a teftimony of the igno- 

 rance and incapacity of the defjgner. Avoid, 

 therefore, putting in fuch kinds as are not pro- 

 perly adapted to the foil and fituation. It is a 

 thoufand times more agreeable to fee a frefh grow- 

 ing healthy Scots fir, than any of the finer kinds 

 of foreign trees in a Hunted, unhealthy flate. If, 

 therefore, you at all attempt to plant the more 

 delicate kinds of trees in an unpropitious foil, take 

 the trouble to introduce a portion of better foil a- 

 round each plant, as advifed for hedge-row trees 

 tor lail month ; and you will thus approve your- 

 felf a workman that needeth not to be afhamed 

 of his labour. 



If the ground, for the purpofe prefently under 

 view, has been prepared by trenching, perhaps 

 twenty inches, or two feet deep ; and if the bot- 

 tom be dry, and the foil of a good quality, there 

 are few kinds, either of ufeful or ornamental trees, 

 \vhich may not be attempted. 



The ikirts of fuch a plantation, if of a confi- 

 derable depth, mould be embellifhed with fhrubs* 

 The dwarfifh kinds mould be placed next to the 

 verge ; the taller forts mould recede inwards till 

 their tops lofe themfelves among the lowerrnofr. 

 branches of the body of the plantation. The 

 body of fuch a plantation may confift of Oaks, 

 or of Spatiiih Chefnuts, or of Beech, or of Larch > 



or 



