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Show pes Qu — all < a Now that this is not only the beft but about twelve Inches, and then fet two more, cheapeft Wayof Quick-fetting, will appear by comparing the Charge of both. and fo continued. In the ufual Way, the Chargeof a three This being finifh’d, he order’d another Rowof Turfs to be placed on each Side upon Foot Ditch is four Pence per Pole, the Owner the Top of the former, and fill’d the Vacancy providing Sets ; if the Workman finds them, between the Sets and Turfs as high as their he will have for making the faid Ditch, and Tops, always leaving the Middle, where the fetting them, eight Pence per Pole, and for Sets were planted, hollow, and fomewhat lower Hedging, two Pence, that is, for both Sides than the Sides of the Banks by eight or ten four Pence the Pole ; which renders the Charge Inches, that the Rain might defcend to their of Hedging, Ditching, and Sets; twelve Roots; which is of great Advantage to their Pence the Pole, that is, for forty Rod in Growth, and by far better than bythe old Lengthforty Shillings Ways, where the Banks are too much floping, Then one Load of Wood outofthe Copfe and the Roots of the Set are feldom wetted cofts (with the Carriage, tho’ but two or three even in a moift Seafon the Summer following: Miles Diftance) tenShillings, which will feldom But ifit prove dry, manyofthe Sets, efpeci- hedge above eight Pole Cfingle Hedge); but ally the late planted, will perifh ; and even allowing to do ten, to fence forty Pole, few of thofe that had been planted inthelat- there muft be at leaft eight Load of Wood, ter End of April, (the Summer happening to which cofts four Pounds, making the whole be fomewhat dry) efcap’d. Expence for Ditching, Fencing and Setting The Planting being thus advane’d, the next forty Pole, to be fix Pounds, reckoning with Care is Fencing ; by fetting a Hedge of about the leaft ; for fcarce any will undertake to do twentyInches high upon the Top of the Bank it for lefs than three Shillings and fix Pence oneach Side thereof, leaning alittle outwards per Pole, and then the forty Pole cofts feyen from the Sets, which will protect them as well Pounds. Gf not better) than a Hedge of three Feet, Whereas with double Ditches, both of them or four Inches more, ftanding on the Surface of Setting and Sets, will be done for eight Pence the Ground, whichbeing rais’d with the Turfs the Pole, and the Husbandman get as good and Sods about twenty Inches, and the Hedge Wages as with the fingle Ditch, (for though about twenty Inches more, will make three the Labour about them is more, yet the Feet four Inches; fo as no Cattle can ap- making the Table is fav’d) which cofts one proach the dead Head to prejudice it, unlefs Pound fix Shillings and eight Pence; and the they fet their Feet in the Ditch it felf, which Hedges being low, they will make better will be at leaft a Foot deep; and from the Wages at Hedging for a Penny a Pole, than at Bottomofthe Fofs to the Top of the Hedge, two Pence for common Hedges; which comes about four Feet and a half, which they can to fix Shillings and eight Pence; for hedging hardly reach over to crop the Quick, as they forty Pole on both Sides; Thus, one Load of might in the old Way; and befides, fuch an Wood will fence thirty Pole at leaft, and Hedge will endure a Year longer. forty hedged with two Thirds of Wood lef He fays, he had an Hedge which had ftood than in the other Way, and coft but one five Years. And tho’ nine or ten Feet were fuf- Pound fix Shillings and eight Pence, which ficient for both Ditches and Banks, yet where makes the other whole Charge of Sets, the Ground is but indifferent, it is better Ditching, Fencing, and Wood but three Husbandry to take twelve Feet, which will Pounds. allow of a Bank at leaft fix Feet broad, and gives more Scope to place the dead Hedges QUICK BEAM: wide Sorbus Sylveftris farther from the Sets, and the Ditches being fhallow, will, in two Years time, graze. QUINCE TREE ; vide Cydonia. Asto the Objection, that taking twelve Feet waftes too much Ground, he affirms, That if QUINCUNX ORDER; isa Plantation of twelve Feet in Breadth be taken for a Ditch Trees, difpos'd originally in a Square, conanother Workman laid the Mould forwards and Bank, there will no more Ground be wafted than by the common Way; forin that a Quick is rarely fet but there is nine Feet between the dead Hedges, which is intirelyloft all the time of fencing ; whereas with double Ditches there remain at leaft eighteen Inches on each Side where the Turfs were fet on edge, that bear more Grafs than whenit lay on the flat. But admitting it did totally lay wafte three Feet of Ground, the Damage were very inconfiderable, fince forty Perch in Length, two hundred and twenty Yards, which makes Perches 7, 25”, 9, or 7 Pole 2; which, at 13s. and 4d. the Acre, amounts not to nat per Annum. : fitting of five Trees, one at each Corner, and a fifth in the Middle; which Difpofition repeated again and again, forms a regular Grove, Wood or Wildernefs: and when view’d by an Angle of the Square orParallelogram, prefents equal or parallel Alleys. Or the Quincunwis the Figure of a Planta- tion of Trees, difpos’d in feveral Rows, both length and breadthwife, in fuch manner, that the firft Tree of the fecond Row commences in the Center of the Square form’d by the two firft Trees of the firft Row, and the two firft of the third, refembling the Figure of the Five at Cards; the fineft mannerof planting Trees to form a Grove Trees Trees plantedin Quincunx, are fuch as are planted in the following Form: * * * * * * * When thefe Vapours are thus drawn up to * % any confiderable Height, the Strength of the Air whichis underneath them, and whichftill *# QUINQUEFOLIUM ; [is fo called, of quingue, five, and folium, Lat, a Leaf, becaufe this Plant bears five Leaves upon one Stalk. It is call’d Pentaphyllum, great Weight and Preffure, yet it will not appear fo, on Confideration. of wiz five, and Stowsgreater and greater, and by its Motion undulating this way and that way, theyrife gradually through the Air. i This is demonftrable by Paper Kites, which after they are rais’d to about fixty Feet high, do rife eafier and with greater Swiftnefs, Cinquefoil. There are many Species of this Plant which and the higher, ftill the better and ftronger are preferv’d in Botanick Gardens, for Variety, they fly. Thefe Clouds being thus arriv’dinto the up(fome of which grow wild in divers Parts of England) but as they are never propagated per Region of the Air, they are foon agoregaeither for Ufe or Beauty, fo I fhall not trouble ted and condens’d into Bodies and Clouds. And tho’ they are blown here and there, the Reader with an Enumerationof their fevethey are ftill fufpended, till they are releafed ral Names. fromtheir Imprifonment by the genial Difpo- gina Leaf, i.e. a Plant having five Leaves.] fition of the Sun, or by the natural Warmth, Humidity and Rarefa@tion ofthe Air. but that Rain dreps Tt is not to be doubted, caufe we don’t find it out of the Cloud e to be feen; and rain, but where Clo by how much the fairer the Weather is, the feldomer it rains. in is a very frequent andufeful Meteor ; ding from above in Form of Drops of ACEMIFEROUS, fignifies bearing in R Clufters. RACEMUS, a Clufer; is a Stalk divided or branchedinto feveral Footftalks, fuftaining the Flowers or Fruits thick fet together; as are the Bunches of Grapes, Currants, &c. The firt of thefe Conditions diftineuifhes it from a Spike; the laft from a Panicle. RADIATED FLOWERS, are fuch as have feveral Semiflorets fet round a Disk, in Form of a radiant Star; as are the Flowers of “y, Camomil, &c. Thefe are called Radicous F Thofe which have no fuch Ray, are call’d Naked difcous Flowers, as the Wormwood, Mugwort, Tanfey, 8c. Rain feems to differ from Dewonly in this, that Dewfalls at fome particular Times, andin very {mall Drops, fo as to be feen when it is down ; but is fcarce perceiveable while it is falling, whereas Rain is groffer, and falls at any time. Rain is apparently a precipitated Cloud, as are nothing but Vapours, raifed from re, Waters, &c. and Vapours are de- monttratively nothing elfe but little Bubbles, or Veficule, detach’d from the Waters, by the Power ofthe folar or fubterraneous Heat, or both. Thefe Veficule being fpecifically lighter than the Atmofphere, are buoyed up thereby till they arrive at a Region, where the Air is a RADICLE, denotes that Part of the Seed juft Ballance with them ; and here they float, ofa Plant, which upon its Vegetation becomes till by fome new Agent, they are converted alittle Root, by which the tender Plant at firft into Clouds, andthence, into either Rain, Snow, receives its Nourifhment before the after-Root Hail, Mift, or the like. is form’d. This is that part of the Seed, which But the Agent in this Formation ofClouds, in making Malt fhoots forth, andis call’d the Come or Comb, RADISH; vide Raphanus. RADISH, HORSE; vide Cochlearia. RAIN is generally accounted to be a crude Vapour of the E tth, but more efp the Sea, drawn up from thence by t tive Power ofthe Sun, orc rry by Pulfion, and wafted by the W into the Aerial Region; by which Sublimation and Rarefaction, and the virtual Qualities of the Sun and Air, it is form’d into Clouds, The Crudities are difpell’d, and thefe Clouds fufpend and hangin the Air; and tho? tmay be thought impoflible that they fhould be fo fufpended in the Air, by reafon of their &e, is a little controverted: The Generality will have it the Cold, which conftantly occupying the fuperior Regions of the Air, chills and condenfes the Veficule, at their Arrival from a warmer Quarter, congregates themtogether, and occafions feveral of them to coalefce into little Maffes; by this Means their Quantity of Matter increafing in a greater Proportion than their Surface, they become an Over-loadto the lighter Air, and defcend into Rain. ; The Coldnefs of the Air may caufe the Particles of the Clouds to lofe ¢ Motion, and become lefs able to refift the Gravity of the incumbent Air, and confequently to yield to its Preflure andfall to the Ground, Mr. Derbam accountsfor the Precipitation hence, That the Veficule being full of Air, when they meet witha colder Air than that 6Y they |
