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mer Seafon, and always keep an agreeable 

 Verdure upon all your Carpet Walks : But 

 particularly all Sloops on Hot Lands (hould 

 be lin'd with it, becaufe they cann't poffibly 

 retain the Rains to refrefli the Turf 5 befides, ^■f^.J^J^l 

 they lie more direftly againft the intcnfe iie^tcbicfytofinc 

 of the Sun than the Flats. Never thelefs, ^^f'^ 

 what I have been direfting, relates chiefly to 

 the interior Parts of a Garden. As for the 

 other exterior Parts, the Ground cann't be 

 well too good for Feeding, for the Verdure 

 and noble Sight of the Grafs 5 a good Green 

 being one of the pleafanteft Colours in Na- 

 ture. 



The Method of Cutting it is fo well known The Method 

 amongft us, that there is as little need to'fjf^^"^ 

 mention it as any thing 5 a Foot wide, and 

 a Yard long, is the common fize of our Turf, 

 tho' it may be cut larger or fmaller, accord- 

 ding as there is room for the Turf-cutters, 

 or as the Turf-layers (hall require it ^ becaufe 

 in fome Verges of Grafs a lefs Dimenfion is 

 the beft, there being not fo much Wafte in 

 it as in larger. After the Ground is fcor'd out 

 with a Line and Racer into Parallels a Foot 

 wide, they then fet their Line acrofs, and 

 cut them into Yard Lengths, tho' fome there 

 be fo dexterous as not to want any Line at 

 all, but will cut it very ftrait without : Aittr 

 'tis thus rac'd out, they flip the Turfing-Iron 

 made like a Spade, but the Handle very 

 crooked, that the Irot;i may lie the flatter on 

 the Ground ^ an Inch is commonly the 

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