Chap. VL of Gardening. 49 



£0 many Works and Returns in them, as to wafte the \\rhole 

 Area of the Wood 5 nor fo few, as to leave great Squares 

 of Wood naked, and without Ornament. Their moftufual 

 Forms are the Star, the direft Crofs, S. Andrew's Crofs, 

 and the Goofe-Foot ; they neverthelefs admit of the follow- 

 ing Defigns, as Cloifters, Labyrinths, Quincunces, Bowl- 

 ing-greens, Halls, Cabinets, circular and fquare Compar- 

 timents. Halls for Comedy, Covered Halls, Natural and 

 Artificial Arbors^ Fountains, Ifles, Cafcades, AVater-Gal- 

 Jeries, Green-Galleries, &c. 



You fliould always obferve to make fdmething Noble in 

 the Middle of a Wood, as a Hall of Horfe-Chefnuts, a 

 Water-work, Cafcade, or the like and in Places of this 

 Kind, the Walks fliould be fomewhat wider than ordinary; 

 -If thole of other Parts of the Wood have twelve Foot in 

 Width, the Middle Walks fliould have eighteen, or four 

 andtweiityj and when there is a Water-work, you fliould 

 avoid making Double-Walks about it, that the Water may 

 be fcen the more agreeably, and the Place be i-ender'd more 



'jdry and wholfome. 



There are Woods of divers Kinds, which may all be 



■-reduced to the fix following : Forefts, or great Woods ef 



-liigh Trees 1 Coppice- Woods, Groves of a fiiiddle Height^ 

 with tall Palifades Groves opened in Compartinients^ 



<jroves planted in Quincunce, or in Squares, and Woods 



>^of Ever-Greens. 



The two firft Kinds, which are Forefts of tall Trees, and 

 Coppices, are proper only in an open Country, or in a Park 



^of fix or eight Miles aver. Yet, that nothing be omitted, I 

 fliall fpeak of thefe, as well as of the other Groves follow- 



■inp, which are" thofe which moll concern our Pleafure-- ^ 



iLjaidens. r n , ^''^^^^ ^^^^^ 



F o RE sirs, and great Woods of tall Trees, are 10 called, Ung, by 

 'becaufe of their Height, and conficlerable Extent of Ground. 

 Such we cdunt thofe that are at leaft a League, or many [p'^lkoftm & 



Acres in C^iUpaft. They coniift of great Trees very high. Lined m^^- 

 and very clbfe one to another, which form a very thick 

 ^tufted Head. Thefe Woods have no Palifades nor rolled French mt. 

 Walks in them, only Ridings -cut for Hunting: They are ^'^^'^^ 



H ulually Bat Enguau 



