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CHAP. VI. 



O F T H E 



FARTER RE. 



Art err e (fays the Author of The The- 

 ory andPracHce of Gardenings as he 

 has it from the Royal DiBionarf) is 

 deriv d from the Lathi Word partiru 

 I Ihall not abfolutely determine againft fo 

 great Authority 5 but it feems to have a nearer 

 Relation to Pars^ or rather the Latin Com- 

 pound, par and Terra^ a level, even Piece of 

 Land 5 neither does it feem to imply sny par- 

 ticular Decoration or Embellifhment with 

 which it is farnilVd, and is therefore, by 

 Miftake, fuppos'd purely to imply, in a limi- 

 ted Senfe only, that Divifion or Plat of 

 Ground, which with us (as well as in other 

 Countries where Gardening is in Efteera) is 

 caird the Parterre^ or Flower-Garden 3 fince 

 the French have their Parterre d' Eau^ or Par- 

 ti 4 terre 



