The PraBice ■ Part IL 



needs no Palifades nor Thickets in thefe Woods, fo that k 

 is-very eafy to plants Sometimes Grafs-plots are fown un- 

 der the Trees^ keeping fome rolled Walks^ as Oceafioa 

 ferves. 



. W oo D S of Ever-Greens are planted in the fame manner 

 as the others, there being no more Difficulty in them : You 

 may have Recourfe to the foregoing Chapter^ for chooling 

 the Trees moft proper to pknt the Walks, Palifades, and 

 Squares of thefe Woods. 



Adhere is nothing longer a growing than a Wood, yotr 

 fhould cohftUt the Ground where you would plant it, exa- 

 mining the natural Bottom of the Earth by digging the fe- 

 veralPlaeeSj and obferving the Grafs that covers it. If the 

 Ground be moift, and cover d with Reeds and Ruflies^ plant 

 in it thofe Trees that love the Water ^ if it be dry, the 

 Trees we call Wild will fuitit better 5, for whaLwill pleafe 

 the natural Soil Ihould always be- regarded,, otherwife the. 

 Wood will be a long time in coming up^ 



By this you fee the Difference there is between Woods,, 

 and Parterres, and Bowling-greens, which, are finer front 

 the firftDay tliey are planted, than afterwards whereas a 

 Wood in its younger Age has nothing, in it perfed, being- 

 deftitute of tliat Shade which yields fo.. much Pleafure ia 

 Gardens, and which conftantly makes one wilh it fomewhat 

 oldeiy and of a more advanced Age. 



As to the Time of planting Trees, it is better, in gene- 

 ral, to undertake it before Winter,, in the Months No- 

 wmber or December ^ than in the Beginning of Spring, as ia 

 the Month of March-i the Trees and their Root5 having, 

 time, during the Winter, to inure themfelves to the Ground^, 

 and to tafte it before the Sap rifes ^ befides that the Rair^ 

 and melted Snows foak and moiften the Roots,, and bind 

 them fafter to the Ground. Trees thai are planted whea 

 Winter is over, have not all thofe Advantages,^ for being, 

 moved and ti'aafplanted toa near the Time of tlie Rife o£ 

 the Sap, they more difficultly betake themfelves-t©- the new 

 Gtouad, and are longer before they ftrike Root iait. 



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