The Englijh Gardner. 2 5 
Of the order and manner of planting Trees at large. 
A N D firft I have here propounded to your View, the 
manner of planting Orchards, or other Plots,after the 
handfomeft and orderlieft fafhion, by which you may per¬ 
ceive how convenient it is to obferve good order in planting, 
and how capable the ground is of being brought into feveral 
forms, without altering or hindring the order or beauty of 
yourPlantation. And therefore if you defire to make yourPlan- 
ration very beautiful to the eye,you are before you begin to 
plant,to level your ground either into a fiat or hanging level, 
as the nature or form of your ground requires, or may raoft 
conveniantly be brought to: The way or manner how to le¬ 
vel,is very plainly let down in that part of the Book that teach- 
eth the ordering of the Garden ofPleafure, to which I refer 
you for brevities fake. But if you are not willing to be at that 
trouble orcoft,you may notwithftanding plant your Trees ac¬ 
cording to the order fet down,the conveniences whereof are 
eafily difcerned. Then you are to flake out your ground ac¬ 
cording to the order propounded,or any other you like bet¬ 
ter , fet your flakes exa&ly both for order and difiance,as you 
defire to have your Trees grow s about a feore offtakes or 
fewer may be a fufficient rule to plant a great ground by 5 if 
you will, you may, after you have fet your ftakes, begin and 
takeupaftake.to plant a Tree in its place,or you may let them 
ftand as a rule till you have planted every part of your ground 
befides, and plant that laft, but be fure you do not plant 
your Trees too nigh to one another,for by ft> doing,they will 
in a Ihort time hinder one another ofconvenient Sun and Air, 
whereby your Fruit would be much better both for taftand 
colour s likewife you Would lofe the benefit ofRofes, Gooft 
berries,and Gorans,which mightbring much plea fere or profit 
for divers’years asalfo of feveral forts of Plerbage, which 
might be very ufeful, as Garrets, Onyons,dfr. or of Graft,the 
which would be much better than when it is too much over- 
E fhadowed.: 
