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For the further management of Grafs in fields, fee 

 Pasture and Meadow; and for that in garden^ fee 



Grass. 



Clover-grafs. See Trifolr^m. 

 Saint-foin. See Onobrychis, or Hedysarum. 

 La Lucerne. See Medica. 

 Nonefuch, See Melilotus, or Trifoliu'm, 

 Trefoil. See Trifolium. 



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See Passiflora. 





It IS a general pradice when turf is laid in gardens, to 

 cover the furface of the ground under the turf, either 

 with fand or very poor earth ; the defign of this is ro 

 keep the Grais fine, by preventing its growing too 

 rank. This is proper enough for very rich rrround, 

 but is not fo for fuch land as is but middling o^ poor \ 

 for when this is pradifed in fuch pkces,^the Grafs 

 will foon wear our, and decay in patches. 

 When turf is taken from a common or down, there 

 fhould be regard had to the cleannefs of it, and not 

 to take fuch as is full of weeds : 



Spurry 

 GRANADILLA. 



GRAPES. SeeViTis. 



GRASS. TheEnglifh Grafs is of fo good a qua- 

 lity for walks or Grafs-plats, that if they be kept in 



good order, they have that exquifite beauty that they 



cannotcomeup toinFrance,andfeveralothercountries. 



But green walks and green plats are, for the moll 



. part, not made by fowing the Grafs-feed, but by lay- 



ino- turfs J and, indeed, the turfs from a fine common 

 -or down, are much preferable to fown Grafs. 



-In fowing a fine green plat, there is a difficulty in get- 1 on early in winter, that the rain may wafh them into 

 ■ tino- good feed ^ it ought not to be fuch as is taken J the ground, before the drought of the fpring comes 



out of the hay-loft without diftinclion -^ for that feed | on, otherwife they will occafion the Grafs to burn 



Ihooting too high and making large ftalks, the lower 



part will be naked and bare -, and although itj^e mow- 

 ed everfo often, it will never rriake handfome Grafs \ 



but, on the contrary, will come to nothing but tufts 

 ' of weeds and Quick-grafs, very little better than that 



of the common fields. 



for it will be a very 

 tedious piece of work, to weed them out after the 

 turf is laid •, and unlefs this is done, the Grafs will ne- 

 ver appear handfome. 



Where turf is defigned to remain for years without 

 renewing, there (hould be dreffing laid upon it every 

 other year, either of very rotten dung, afhes, or, where 

 it can be eafily procured, very rotten tan, is a good 

 drefiing for Grafs ; bur thcfe dreffino;s fhould be laid 



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when the warmth of iuvcim^i' begins. Where Grafs is 

 fo drefTed, and kept well rolled and mowed, it may 

 be kept very beautiful for many years ; but where it is 

 not drefled or fed with Iheep, it will rarely continue 

 handfome more than eight or ten years. 

 GRATIOLA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 27. Raii Meth. 



If walks or plats be made by fowing, the beft way! Plant. 90. Digitalis:. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 165. Hedge 



is to procure the feed fronf Aofe paftuf^s' where the I ' HyflJbp. 



. Grafs is naturally fine aiict cfear, or elfe the trouble of 

 .• keeping it from fpiry and benty Grafs will be very 

 ♦ great, and it will fcarce ever look handfome. 

 ' In order to fow Grafs-feed, the ground muft be firft 

 i" dug or broken up with a fpade i and when it has been 

 ?' dreifed and laid even, it muft be very finely raked 

 "!' over, and all the clods and ftones taken off^, and co- 

 ' yered over an inch thick with good mould, to facili- 

 tate the growth of the feed ; this being done, the feed 

 X is to be fown pretty thick, that it may come up clofe 

 and flioft ; and it muft be raked over again to bury 

 -lind cover the feed, that if the weather Ihould hap- 

 / pen to be windy, it may not be blown away. 

 'As to the feafon of fowing Grafs, the middle or lat- 

 tcr end of Auguft is a good time, becaufe the feed 

 . naturally requires nothing but moifture to make it 

 \ grow'': if be not fown till the latter end of February, 

 ^ or the beginning of March, if the weather prbves dry, 

 it will not fo foon make the walks or quarters green. 

 It IS alfo beft to fow it in a mild day, and inclining to 

 rain j for tliat, by finking down the feed in the earth, 

 ''will caufe it to Ihoot the fooner. But where Grafs is 

 fown in gardens, either for lawns or walks, there 

 fhould always be a good quantity of the White Tre- 

 foil orDutcjji Clover fbwri with it, fof this will make 

 ' a fine turf much_ fooner than any other fown Grafs, 

 and will continue a better verdure than any of the 

 ' Grafs tribe;>- • ■- :'.f^ ; ^0 :.v . v>:^ >; '^-'o * .- ■ 



■ After the feed is well come up, and the Grafs is very 



' thick and of a beautiful gi^een, it will require a con- 



ftant care to keep it in order : this confifts in rAbwTng 



the Grafs often, for the .oftcner it is mowed, the 



thicker and handfomer it grows •, it muft alfo be rolled 



with a cylinder or roller of wood, to level it as much 



Jipcffible. >)/:•.•: ' x .\^ 'u: 



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The Characters are, - . 



The flower hath it permanent em^alcmenty which is cut 

 into five parts \ it hath one petal of the grinning kind, 

 with a tube longer than the empalementy cut at the top . 

 into four fmall fegments^ the upper being broader and in- 

 dented at the end where it is reJlexSi% the other three are 

 ereEl and equal. It hath five aw^^ed ftarnim^ three 

 of which are porter than the petafi and Jieril -, the other 

 two are longer ^ and adhere to the tube of the petal-, thefe 

 are fruitful in male duft j they are terminated by roundijb 

 fummits. In the cejiter is fituated a conical germen, fup^ 

 porting an ere£t ftyle, crowned by a ftigma with two 

 lipSy which clofe after being fecundated. The gennen af^ 

 terward becomes an oval capfule ending in a point, having 

 two cells which are filled with fmall feeds. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feftion of 

 Linnseus's fecond clafs, intitled Diandria Monogynia, 

 which includes thofe plants whofe flowers have but 

 two ftamina and one ftyle, for he does not eftcfdnr^ 





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the three barren ftamina as worthy notice! ;^— 

 - '■ The Species are: ^ ''- ■ '- -- -^^^^^^^ ni^^rntY^iXA^- 



I. Gratiola {Officinalis^ floribus pedunculatis, foliis 



lancec3atls ferratis. Lin. Mat. Med. 18. Hedge Hyjfop 



'■with flowers fldn^ng 6)f fodt-fldlks, ' dtid fpear-fhaped 



leaves'^'^^jyigxtdXis minima Gratiolata dida. Mor. Hift. 



2. 479'. Leaft Foxglove, catted Gratiola. 



%': Gratiola {Virginiana) foliis lanceolatis obtufis fub 



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If Grafs be neglefted, it will run Into Quick-grafs 

 and weeds; and if it doeV lb, tliere is ho way to re- 

 cover it, but eithei* by fowi%"it, or laying it over 

 ^gain, and that once in tvtvj two years -, but if the 

 ground be well cleared from the roots of ftrong weeds, 

 2nd the turf be taken from a fine level common, it 

 will continue handfome for feveral years, provided it 

 bewellkept, ■. v.:r^u.-: -■ -- * - : "^ -^ 



In order to keep Grafs-plat's or walks handfome and 

 jn good order, in auturrin you may fow fomfe frefh 

 leed over any places that are not well filled, or whfere 

 the Grafs is dead, tp renew %j\^ furnifli them again j 

 feut there is nothing which improves Grafs fo much as 

 conftant rolling and polling itf to deftroy wormcafts, 

 and tiicreby the turf is rendered fine. . 



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dentatis. Flor. Virg. 6. 

 denied leaves. 



3. GRAtioLA {Petuvtdna) floribus fubfefTilibus. Lin. Sp. 

 Rant. 17. Hedge Hyffop with flowers fitting clofe to the 

 branches. Gratiola latiore folio flore albo. Feuill. 



Peruv.^' • ■ ''■'■■'^'' " ' ■ 



The firft fort grows naturally on the Alps, and other 

 mountainous parts of Europe. ' This hath a thick, 

 flelhyi fibrous, creeping foot, which propagated very 



* miicn when planfcd ink proper foil arid fituation, from 



• which arife feveral upright fquare ftalks, near a foot 

 high, garnifhed with narrow fpear-lhaped leaves placed 



■ oppofite ; the flowers are produced on the fide of the 

 ftalks at each joint, they are fhaped like thofe of the 



- Foxglove, but are fmall, and of a pale yellowilh co- 

 lour. Thefe appear in July^ But are feldom fuc- 



ceeded by feeds in England. 

 It is eafily propagated by parting of the roots; the 

 beft time to do this is in the autumn, when the ftalks 

 decay ; the plants fiiould have a moiij: foil and a ftiady 

 fituation, in which they will thrive exceedingly ; but 

 in dry ground they often decay in fummer, unlefs they 

 are plentifully watered. ' ^ % -> 



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