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requifite in all the Round ; viz. one next to the Enclojkre^ the 

 other nhont the Thicket to fence it from Cattle. This between the 

 two hedges (of whatfbever breadth) is fitteft for Plantation : In 

 thefe hedges might be tryed the plantation ofjiocl{s 5 in the inter- 

 vals all manner of wood-feeds Ibwn (after competent plowings) as 

 Acorns^ Maii^ Fir^ Pine, Nuts^f^c. the firji year chafing away 

 the Birds, becaufe of the Fir and Pine feeds, for reafons given 5 

 thefcond year loofning the ground, and thinning the fupernume- 

 raries, &c, this is the mofl: frugal way : Or by another Method 

 ihefVaJie places of Forejis and Woods (which by through experi- 

 ence is known and tried) might be perfedirly extirpated , and then 

 allowing two or three plomngs, well-rooted (locks be fet , cut 

 and trimm'd as is requifite ^ and that the Timber-trees may be ex- 

 cellent, thofe after wards copfed, and the choicefl: ^o c^*" kept 

 fhreaded. If an Enclojure be Ibw'd, the Seeds may be (as was 

 direfted) of all the Jpecies, not forgetting the beft Pines, Fir^ ^c. 

 whiles the yearly removal of very incumbrances only will repay 

 the lVork:men, who fell the ^icK-, or referve it to ftore other En- 

 clofures, and foften the circumjacent grounds to the very great 

 improvement of what remains. 



9. And how if in fuch Fencing-vporks we did fbmetimes imitate 

 \ihzt ^int us Cur tius, lib. 6. hzs xecox^edioi the Mar dor um gens ^ 

 necr to the Confines of Hyrcania, who did by the clofe planting 

 of Trees alone upon the bordures give Ho ftrange a check to the 

 power of that great Conqueror Alexander ? They were a barba- 

 rous people indeed, but in this worthy our imitation ; and the 

 work fo handfomly and particularly defcrib'd that I (hall not 

 grieve to recite it. Arborcs denfefunt de indujtria conft<e, quarum 

 teneros adhuc ramos mamt fle&unt^ quos intortos rurfitf inferunt 

 terr£ : Inde velut ex alia radice Utiores virent trttnci : hos^ qua na- 

 turafert, adolefcere nonjinnnt : quippe alium alii, quaft nexu confe- 

 rtint : quiubimultafrondevejiitifnnt, operiunt terram. ttaque oc- 

 culti ramorum velut laquei perpetua fepe iter claudunt, (^c. The 

 Trees (faith he) were planted fo neer and thick together of pur- 

 pofe, that when the boughs were yet young and flexible, bent and 

 wreath'd within one another,their tops were bowed into the earth 

 Cff vpefubmerge our Layers) whence taking fre(h roots,they (hot up 

 new ftems, which not being permitted to grow as of themfelves 

 they would have done, they fo knit and perplex'd one within ano- 

 ther, that when they were clad with leaves, they even cover'd the 

 ground, and enclofed the whole Country with a kind of living 

 net, and impenetrable hedge, as the Hiftorian continues the de- 

 fcription. fuch works as thefe would become a Cato, or Farro in- 

 deed, one that were Pater Patri£, nonjibifoli natus born for Po- 

 fterity , but we are commonly of another mould, 



^fiuges confumere nati, 



10. A fair advance for fpeedy growth, and noble Trees ("efpe- 

 cially for Walks and Avenuesjmay be afl'uredly expefted from 

 the Crajjing of young Oakj, and Elms with the beft of their kinds i 

 and where the goodliefl of thefe laji are growing , the ground 

 would be plom'd, and finely raked in the feafon when the Scales 



R. falls 



