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in- planting the Trees, as for recovering new Meafures^ 

 lliould it be afterwards neceflary. 



Wha T we call RaHing a Square (which is a Term much 

 ufed in this Work) is, when, upon a ftrait Line drawn with 

 thelnftrument, or with the Cord, you caufe another Linci 

 to fall directly perpendicular, which makes a Right Angle^ 

 or Square i and is what the French Workmen call, Le 

 Ti'ah quane. 



You muft take the Precaution in working, to have near 

 you a fmall Line of three or four Fathom long, to take the 

 lefTer Meafures, and perform the fnialler Operations i as. 

 alfo, to have a large wooden Square to make the ftiort ^nisisthe 

 Returns you meet with in your Defigns, where 'tis need- f^^^es^iuare 

 kfs to make ute of the Semi-circle^^ or Cord^ to i^iife the 

 Square. of. 



When, in the foUomng Exercifes, you read. Trace out 

 this Line by the Third^ by the Fifth Pra^iice^ &c, it fignifies, 

 that 'tis tlie fame Operation that was done before in the 

 Third or Fifth Praftiee, to which you are referred, to avoid 

 Repetitions ; and the Pradices-are numbered exadly for this- 

 very Purpofe. 



'Tis convenient to fay one thing hei-e, before I enter up- 

 on the following Exercites ; That a Gardener who is defirous 

 to learn, be not ftartled at the Difficulties he may conceive, 

 either in the Bufmefs of Defign, which he may think indif- 

 penfably neceifary for him to know how to perform, or ar 

 the' great Pains he may fuppofe 'twill coft him, to appre- 

 hend, and put in Pradice, all the following Figiires. 



A s to the firft Difficulty, I lliall fay, for all Gardeners and 

 Countrymen in general, that 'tis not neceifary they fiiould 

 know how to deiign, but only that they Ihould underftand 

 a Plan, fo as that when a Deiign is given them,, they may be 

 able to flrike it out to a Truth upon the Ground ; which is 

 done by means of a fmall double Line divided by the Fa-- 

 thom, which is called the Scale of the Plan, and is always ar 

 the Bottom of the Paper. As- all the Parts of a Dcfign are 

 made upon this Scale, and that it is an infallible Rixle for 

 defcribing them truly upon the Ground, to follow it exadtly^. 

 the Gardener has no more to do than to examine the Scale, . 



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