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roller, to wLich all the vvorm-caft earth will readily adhere, 

 by which means your grafs will be rendered quite clean, fo 

 as to appear extremely neat, and you will reap the advan- 

 tage oi it in mowing-time. 



Making Grafs Walks or La^.vns, 

 Now is alfo a proper time, w^hen the weather is open, to 

 lay turf, where wanted, for. making or mending grafs walks 

 or lawns. 



The befl turf for gardens is to be met with on commons 

 or downs, where many (heep are pailured. When you go to 

 cut turf, let them be marked out a yard long, and a foot 

 broad : they muft be cut about an inch thick, with a pro- 

 per turfing iron; and according as they are cut up, they 

 Ihould be rolled up as clofe and as firm as poflible, for the 

 more ready carrying and moving them about without 

 breaking. 



Let the ground where they are to be laid be made as 

 firm and even as poilible, by good treading, &c. that it 

 may not fettle unequally hereafter ; having generally three 

 or four inches of any light, poor rubbifhy foil at top, to 

 prevent the grafs from growing rank : and rake the furface 

 fmooth ready for the turf. In laying them, make the edges 

 join clofe and even every way, and as foon as laid, the whole 

 fhould be immediately well beaten with a heavy wooden 

 beater, and afterwards rolled with a large ftone or iron roller* 



Gravel Walks, 



The gravel walks which have not been laid up in 

 ridges fhould be kept clean from litter, and free from 

 weeds jand let them be now and then rolled in dry wea* 

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Planting Box and Thrift for Edgings. 



Now is a very good time to plant box or thrift, where 

 it is wanted for edgings to beds or borders. Thefe edgings 

 may be planted any time this month, when the weather is 

 mild. Both thefe make clofe and agreeable edgings, if 

 neatly planted, and well kept afterwards. 



But the box is fuperior to every thing for forming the 

 moil: efFe6lual, handfomeft, and durable edging. 



For the method of planting them, fee O^obcr andA'a- 

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