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in pots filled with foft loamy earth mixed with a little 

 fea fand, and if the feafon proves hot and dry, it will 

 be proper to place the pots where they may have only 

 the morning Ibn, until the offsets have put out new 

 roots, for when they are expofed to the full fun, the 

 earth will dry too faft, and if the roots are much wa- 

 tered, they are apt to rot ; after they have taken new 

 root, they may be placed in a fheltered fituation, 

 where they may enjoy the full fun. In this place 

 they may remain till there is danger "of frofty morn- 

 ings ; then the pots fhould be placed in a hot-bed 

 frame, with the Ixias, and ot^her bulbous and tuberofe- 

 rooted plants from theCapeof Good Hope, and treated 

 in the fame manner as hath been direfted for them. 

 The fecond fort is alfo a native of the fame country 

 with the firft, but is of fmaller growth ; the root is 

 in fnape like that of the former, fending out feveral 

 plaited leaves about fix inches long," Having three deep 

 longitudinal veins in each ; in the center of the leaves 

 the flower-ttalk arifes, which is a foot high, fending 

 out one or two fide branches ;" the lower part of the 

 ftalk is of a purple colour, the upper is green and 

 hairy ; the foot-ftalk's of the flov/ers come out at the 

 jointsof the ftalk, fufliainirig two or three flowers of 

 a pale purple colour. Thefe appear in the beginning 

 cf Auguft, and are fucceeded by capfules, but the 

 feeds rarely ripen in England. 



This fort requires the fame culture as the former, and 

 is equally hardy. ' ''" ' 



Walks are made either of gravel, fand, or Grafs ; 

 thefe three forts of Walks are the moll common in 

 England, but where gravel or fatid cannot be" pro- 

 cured, they are fometimes laid with powdered coal, 

 fea-coal afhes, and fometimes of powdered brick, but 

 thefe are rarely ufed, "when either gravel or fand can 

 be procured j however, where fea-coal aflies can be 

 had, it is preferable to the powdered coal or bricks, 

 becaufe they bind very hard, and never fl:ick' to the 

 feet in frofty weather, which is a good quality ; but 

 the darknefs of its colour has been an obje(5bion to 

 the ufe of it in gardens, however, for the wilderhefs 

 Walks I think k is preferable to moft other materials ; 



. but 1 fliall proceed to give direftions for the making of 

 thefeveral,forts of Walks, and firft of the gravel Walks. 

 In order to the laying of Walks in gardens, when 



. they are marked ouit, the earth fhould be taken away 

 to a certain depth, that the bottom of them be filled 

 with fome hme rubbifh, orcoarfe gravel, flint-ftones, 

 or other rocky materials, which will be ferviceable to 

 prevent weeds from growing through the gravel, and 

 alfo to keep away worm-cafts. This bottom fliould 

 belaid ten inches or afoot thick, over which the 

 coat of gravel fhould be fix or eight inches, which 

 gravel ftrould be very fine, but yet not fcreened, 

 becaufe that fpoils, it. This fliould be laid on ^ heap, 



■ rounding, that the, larger rough ftojies may rundown 

 on the fides, which being every how'and then "raked 

 ofr, the gravel by that means will be fufnciehtTy'fi!he. 

 After the gravel has been laid to the thicknefs above- 

 mentioned, then the Walks niuift be exadtly levelled, 

 and raked true from all great drips, as well as little 

 holes. By this means moft of the ftones of the W^lks 

 will be raked under your feet, v/hich fhould rather 

 be gently fprinkled back again, over the laft length 

 that is raked, then buried (as is the praftice of manv 



* gardeners ;) by this means the Walk will lie much 

 harder, and the coarfeft ftones will very much,wn.tri- 



bute to its firmnefs. , /\. . : '..V -J . 



There is alfo a great fault committed frequently, in 

 laying Walks too round, arid fome to that degree, 

 that they 'cannot be walked on with that eafe and plea- 

 fure that ought to be ; and befides, this too great 

 ' rounding takes off much from the fceming breadth 



and beauty of the Walk. 



l^he common allowance for a gravel Walk of five feet 



breadth, is an inch rife in the crown ; fo that .if a 



■ Walk be twenty feet wide, according to this propor- 

 tion, it will be four inches higher in the middle than 



on each fide-, 



Walk 



five inches, one of twenty feet four inches, and fopn. 



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When a Walk has be^h thus carefully laid, trodden 

 down, and raked, or rather, after every length or 

 part of it (which commonly is about fifteen feet each,) 

 then it fhould be rolled well, both in length and alfo 

 crbfs-ways. The pcrfon who rolls it fliould wear fhoes 

 with flat heels, that he may not make holes in the 

 Walks, for when thefe are once made in a new Walk, 

 it will not be eafy to roll them out again. 

 In order to lay gravel Walks firm, it will be neceffary 

 to give them three or four water rollings, that is, 

 they muft be rolled when' it rains fo very faft, that the 

 Walks fwim with water •, this will caufe the gravel to 

 bind, fo that when the Walks come to be dry, they 

 will be as hard as terrace. 



Iron-mould gravel is accounted the beft for binding, 

 or gravel with a little binding loam amongft itj which 

 latter, though it be apt to ftick to the heels of fhoes 

 in hot wet weather, yet nothing binds better in^dry 

 weather. \ 



When- the gravel is over-fandy or fliarp, loam is fre- 

 quently mixed with it, which, if they be caft toge* 

 ther in heaps, and well mixed, will bind like a rock; 

 whereas, loole gravel is as uncomfortable and uneafy to 

 walk on, as any other fault in a Walk can render it. 

 The beft gravel for Walks is fuch as abounds with 

 fmooth pebbles (as is that dug at Black-heath,) which, 

 being mixed with a due proportion of loam, will bind 

 like a rock, and is never injured by wet or dry wea- 

 ther, and the pebbles being fmooth, are not liable to ' 

 be turned up, and loofcned by the feet in walking, 

 as are thofe which are angular and roue:h : for wheie 

 Walks are laid with fuch gravel as is full of irregular 

 ftones, th6y appear'' uhfightly in a cTay's time after 

 rolling, becaule the ftones will rife upon the furfacc 

 whenever they are walked upon, but the finooth peb- 

 bles will ferriain handforrie two or three days ,witnout 

 rolling. ' --.--. 



Gravel Walks are not only very necefTary pear the 

 houfe, b^^t there fhould always be one carried quite 

 round the garden, becaufe, being foon dry after rain, 

 they are proper for walking on in' all feafons ; but 

 then thefe fhould be but few, and thofe adjoining to 

 the houfe ought to be large and magnificent, propor- 

 tionable to the grandeur of the houfe and garden. 

 The principal of thefe walks fhould be elevated^ and 

 carried parallel with the houfe, fo as to Form a terrace; 

 this fhould extend itfelf each Way, in' proportion to 

 the width of the garden, fo that from this there may 

 be a communication with the fide Walks, without go- 

 ing on the Grafs, that there may be ,a ,dry Walk .con- 

 tinued quite through the gardens ; but there is not a 

 more ridiculous fight, than that of a ftrait gravel Walk, 

 leadino; to the front of the houfe, interfering the 

 Grafs, fo as to make it appear like the ftiff formal 

 Grafs plats frequently made in little court-yards by 

 perfons of low tafte.^ ^,*4,',^\ 



Grafs Walks in gardens were formerly in great efteem, 

 and loolced upon as'heceffary ornaments to a garden, 

 but of late years they have juftly been banifhedby 

 every p'erfon of true tafte ; for thofe iiarrow flips of 

 Grai^ were very unfightly, and far from being orna- 

 mental, and for the moft part ufclefs, Tbemg generally 

 too damp for perfons'of tender conftitutions to walk 

 upon'; .and whenever they were conftantly ufed, they 

 became bare in the olaces frequently trodden, fowere 

 rendered more unughtly-, and as the intention of 

 Walks in gardens is to have at afl feafons a dry com- 

 munication throughout the garden, for exercife and 

 recreation,' Grafs Walks were very improper, becaufe 

 every fhow^r of rain made them fo wet, as not to be 

 fit for ufe afconfiderable time, and the dews rendered 

 them too damp for ulc either in the morning or even- 

 ing ;"and if the Grafs of Walks is not very fine and 

 fhort, like that of the downs, it v/ill be very troublc- 

 fome to walk upon; befides, whenever the ground 

 is fd dry, as that perfpns may with fafety walk upon 

 Grafs, the lawns and other parts of verdure in 

 dens are better adapted for ufe than any of ,;£ofe 

 formal ftiff Walks, which were fo much cfteemed in 



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