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the greatest possible variety and effect, 3ome 

 being made circular, others oval or oblong, and 

 with bendings, sweeps, or swells, outwavd or 

 inward, and larger or smaller, as may be ne- 

 cessary. They may be dispersed with the greatest 

 effect on the confines of extensive lawns or 

 other open spaces, in grass, also in parks, pad- 

 docks, the terminations of spacious avenues, 

 and carriage-ways leading to the houses, espe- 

 cially when of considerable dimensions, being 

 varied in situation, and distributed at such di- 

 stances as to leave large intervening spaces of 

 open land in grass. 



In the planting of compartments of this 

 nature, in order to produce the best effect, much 

 attention should be bestowed in regulating the 

 sizes of the plants, their shades, and times of 

 flowering, as well as in the disposing them in 

 the order of their different growths, so that 

 they may rise regularly from the side* to the 

 centres, and display themselves in the best and 

 most advantageous manner in their heads and 

 branches. 



It was formerly the practiceto plant trees and 

 shrubs of the deciduous and evergreen kinds 

 chiefly together in separate patches, but by a 

 judicious mixture of both sorts a great richness 

 and variety of effect is produced. Various sorts 

 of tall herbaceous perennial plants, as well as low 

 flowering ones, may be introduced on the sides 

 and edges, such as those of golden-rod, and 

 other similar kinds, with daffodils, violets, 

 polyanthuses, primroses, and many others of 

 the same sort. 



In the less extensive sorts of ornamented 

 grounds, these sorts of bosquets should always 

 remain perfectly open, and wholly exposed to 

 view, in order that the full variety of the plants 

 may be seen; but in extensive parks, and other 

 similar grounds, where they are chiefly planted 

 with the more lar»e and coarse hardy trees and 

 shrubs, they may be inclosed by open hurdles 

 to defend them from the cropping of cattle or 

 other animals, especially until they have ac- 

 quired a sufficiently large growth. 



These clumps, after being thus planted, only 

 require the earth among the plants to be slightly 

 dug over in the autumn or verv early spring, 

 and once or twice hoed over in the summer to 

 keep weeds from rising; the dead wood and 

 irregular branches of the different plants or trees 

 being cut out, shortened and removed, to pre- 

 serve them distinct and keep them in due order. 

 See Clump. 



When well arranged, and kept in neat order, 

 these sorts of bosquets produce much diversity 

 and ornamental effect, both in large gardens and 

 pleasure-grounds. 

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BOWLING-GREEN, a spacious plat laid 

 evenly with turf, in pleasure- or other grounds, 

 designed for the purpose of ornament as well as 

 amusement in the summer season bv bowline 

 upon These sorts of compartments should 

 mostly lie formed as near the habitations as pos- 

 sible, being laid out on the back or side fronts, 

 so as to serve by way of lawns to such parts; 

 or they may be situated at the terminations 

 of walks or avenues. They mav also be con- 

 trived amidst detached contiguous plantations, 

 or wilderness quarters, to serve as portions of 

 sward ground, or as openings to such places, 

 and should always have tall trees so situated on 

 the boundaries as to afford shade, especially, in 

 the afternoon. 



The dimensions must vary according to cir- 

 cumstances; but where there is scope of ground 

 sufficient, they should not be less than from haif 

 an acre to an acre. The most common form is 

 that of a square, moderately extended ; but some 

 are made oblong, others circular; though, to 

 suit the general plan or figure of the ground, 

 thev may be of any other form, so as to a»oid the 

 garden ground. Their boundaries may also be a 

 spacious planted border, of either the straight 

 or serpentine kind. 



The plane or surface of the green should be 

 perfectly level, and as high at least as the ge- 

 neral level of the adjoining ground, so as that 

 it may be always preserved free from stagnant 

 water. 



In forming these plats, the surface should be 

 levelled in the most exact manner, and laid 

 with the finest grass-turf that can be procured 

 from a close, pasture, common, or down. See 



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The extents and proper levels of the greens 

 being then set out with stakes, placed round the 

 extremities or boundaries at fifteen or twenty 

 feet distance, on which are marked the deter- 

 mined levels of the ground, and from which, 

 on the opposite sides, levels in other cross-ways 

 at the same distances should be made; and then, 

 according to these levels, proceed by line and 

 spade to form the ground to a proper surface, 

 making it up firmly in lines from stake to stake; 

 the pannels or spaces between being made up 

 equally firm and regular, so that no part may 

 sink in hollows afterwards. The whole should 

 then be raked level, and finished oft' evenly and 

 smooth : two or three inches deep of light sandy 

 soil, or any light dry poor earth, mav then if 

 necessary be laid evenly over the surfaces, as 

 equal in quality as possible, as by that means 

 the turf or grass will form a more fine, regular, 

 and even sward. 



The grassy surfaces should always be formed 



