Chap. VI. of Gardening. 



and drawn exactly the Defign of the Wood^ you plant the 

 Walks, Halls, Cabinets, C^cv m the fame Manner as was 

 |uft now taught in this Chapter, fpeaking of Walks. So 

 likewife you plant the Palifades, following exadly the Out- 

 Lines and Returns of theDefign, and opening little Trenches, 

 3.S was mentioned above. To fill up the Middle of the 

 Wood, which is the Bufinefs now to be fpoken to, mark out 

 Lines with the Cord at fix Foot Diftauce one from another, 

 ^nd opoi them in Trenches a Spit deep, and about the fame 

 Breadth, in which plant your Elms, Chefnuts, &c. three 

 Foot afunder ^ and between each Trench, after the Plant is 

 fet, and entirely recovered, fow or fet Acorns, Chefnuts, 

 ^nd all Sorts of Seed, to make your Thicket and Brufh- 

 Wood; and the Rows of rooted Plants will, in time, form 

 ^he Head of the Grove, if Care be taken to trim their 

 Branches, and conduct them to their proper Height, 



This is the beft Way to plant a thick Wood. For your 

 farther Satisfad:ion, you may alfo obferve to fet a Plant 

 fomewhat ftronger than ordinary in the Squares, and to in- 

 ter the long Branches that trail along the Ground for Layers,, 

 inftead of cutting them off, which will foon furniih the 

 Wood I this thrives too, much better than fowing the Seed^ 

 ^s you do in planting great Woods and Coppices. 



Gr ovES that are open, and in Compartiments, are ve« 

 -17 different from tall Woods and Coppices, in that the Mid- 

 dles of their Squares have no Wood in them, but are filled 

 with Green-Plots in Compartimexits, which are to be fown 

 or laid with Turf, according to what is intended in theDe- 

 fign, and as has been already fpoken to in the feventh Cha- 

 pter of the firft Part. As to the Walks and Palifades of thefe 

 Woods, they are planted in the fame manner as has been de~. 

 fcribed above* 



QuiNcuNcx s are planted as Walks, being in effect ncy 

 other than feveralRows of Trees, and many parallel Walks; 

 ranging and anfwering the Lines of one another ^ you are 

 only to take Care, in planting thefe Woods, to raife your 

 Squares very exadly^ and to fet your Trees ftrait, fo as to 

 keep a Line from Corner to Corner, and anfwer one ano- 

 ther diredly, which is all the Beauty of them. There 



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