Chap. VI. of Gardening. 



In the Squares of thefe Woods are made Compartimefits and 

 Green-plots^ with a rolled Path of two Foot wide running 

 every-where between the Palifades and Grafs-work, which 

 are adorned with Yews and Flowering-Shrubs regularly 

 .planted. Defigns of this Sort are the moft beautiful and 

 moft magnificent that can be^ and are a kind of real Par- 

 terres, partaking of thofe after the Englijh Manner, and 

 them of Compartiment, and ftill retaining fomething of 

 the Wood. You may make in them Cabinets and Halls, 

 with Lines and Viftas for Communication between one and 

 the other. 



Groves planted in Quincunce are no other than feve- 

 ral Alleys or Rows of tall Trees planted checker-wife, or at 

 Right Angles, or elfe in Parallel Lines, without any Brufii- 

 wood or Palifades. They are called Quincunces, becaufe 

 of the Conformity they bear to the Cinque-Points of a Die, 

 ■or to the Five on the Playing-Cards : Under thefe Trees 

 the Ground is kept rolled or laid with Turf, leaving only 

 certain Alleys in the Middle, and fome fmalP Cabinets » Cabinets 

 and Viftas, all which being without Palifades, you fliould J^fdin art 

 have every way a Profpeft of Walks planted exquifitely 'Zbtl^suL 

 flrait, and in a Line. mr-EQufa^ 



The Quincunces we make -now-a-days, are vay diifc- 

 rent from thofe of the Ancients mentioned by Vitm^vius^ 

 that were like the Cinque-Points of a Die, a Tree being 

 planted in the Middle or Center of the four, which is now 

 qviite out of vife, becaufe it makes fome of the Walks nar- 

 rower than others. They now plant their Quincvinces in 

 Lines returned at aight Angles, forming a Checker or per- 

 £c£t Square every way, which renders the Walks more re- 

 gular, and of equal Breadth throughout. 



The fixth Kind, or the Woods of Ever-^Greens, are the 

 fineft of all, on account of their continual Verdure, as well 

 in Winter as Summer ; but are the leaft made ufe of in 

 Gardens, becaufe -the Length of Time required to bring 

 them to Perfection puts People out of Conceit with plant- 

 ing them. 



In the following Defigns you will find all that can be 

 defired in the Bufinefs of Wood-work i and I think^ I may 



H 2 fay^ 



