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but I would advife the planting fuch an 

 arcade not above fixteen or eighteen foot 

 wide, and the trees ten or twelve foot a- 

 funder ; for by being kept cut level at top, 

 they will the fooner meet, and fgrm a na- 

 tural arcade, and fo fliade the ground the 

 lefs; befides which there will bean imme- 

 diate cover to the owner as foon as he is 

 got out of his houfe; and the rows will 

 befodetach'd from the angles of the honfe, 

 and the parterre and canal, as not to make 

 it look too narrov/ or pinn'd up. 



On the outer fide of each of thefe ar- 

 cades, there runs a little hedge-row of a- 

 bout fix or feven yards wide, thro' the 

 middle of which there will be a private 

 path of five or fix foot wide, or more ^ 

 for as thefe hedge-rows, if to be planted, 

 are generally of nuts, philbuds, chefnuts, 

 and other ordinary, but ufeful fruits, there 

 will be an agreeable pleafure in fuch a pri- 

 vate retreat : but that may either be, or 

 not be, as the owner pleafes ^ tho' a walk 

 of this kind, a little detaclid from the 

 middle one, 1 have obferv'd to have a good 

 efFed, efpecially in the plantation of the 

 Right Honourable the Lord Brucey at Tot - 

 tenhamVsLrk in IVilts. 



Thro' the fields there are half-ftandard 

 E e 4 fruit 



