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In order to low Grafs- Seed, the 

 Ground muft be firft dug or broken 

 up with a Spade j and when it has 

 been drefs'd and laid even, it muil: 

 be finely rak'd over, and all the 

 Clods and Stones taken off, and 

 covered over an Inch thick with 

 good Mould to facilitate the Growth 

 ot the Seed: This being done, the 

 Seed is to be fown pretty thick, 

 that it may come up clofe and 

 fhort, and it muft be rak'd over 

 again to bury and cover the Seed, 

 that if the Weather fliould happen 

 to be windy, it may not be blown 

 away. 



As to the Seafon of fowing Grafs, 

 the latter End ot Augufi is a good 

 Time, becaufe the Seed naturally 

 requires nothing but Moifture to 

 make it grow : If it be nor fown 

 till the latter End of February, or 

 the Beginning of March, if the 

 Weather proves dry, it will not fo 

 foon make the Walks or Quarters 

 green. It is alfo bed to fow it in 

 a mild Day, and inclining to Rain, 

 for that, by finking down the Seed 

 in the Earth, will caufe it to fhoot 

 the fooner. 



After the Seed is well come up, 

 and the Grafs is very thick, and of 

 a beautiful Green, it will require a 

 conftant Care to keep it in Order : 

 This confifts in mowing the Grafs 

 often J for the oftener it is mow'd, 

 the thicker and handfomer it grows : 

 It muft alfo be roU'd with a Cy- 

 linder, or Roller of Wood, Stone, or 

 Iron, to level it as much as polTible. 



If Grafs be negleded, it will run 

 into Quick-Grafs and Weeds j and 

 if it does fo, there is no way to 

 recover it, but either by fowing it, 

 or laying it over again, and that 

 once in every two Years j but if 

 the Ground be well clear'd from 

 the Roots of ftrong Weeds, and the 

 ^urf be taken from a fine level 



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Common, it will continue hand- 

 feme for feveral Years, provided 

 it be well kept. 



In order to keep Grafs Plots or 

 Walkf; handfcMTie and in good Order, 

 in Autumn you may fowfome frcfli 

 Seed over any Places that arc not well 

 fiU'd, or where the Grafs is dead, to 

 renev/ and furnilh them again. 



GRAVEL and Grals are natural 

 Ornaments to a Country-Seat, and 

 are the Glory ot the Englifl) Gardens, 

 and Things by which wc excel all 

 other Nations, as France, Holland, 

 Flanders, 8cc. 



There are different Sorts of Gra- 

 vel j but for thofe who can con- 

 veniently have it, I approve of that 

 Gravel on Black-Heath, as preferable 

 to mofl: that we have in England, 

 it conlifting of fmooth, even Peb- 

 bles, v/hich, when mix'd with a 

 due Quantity of Loam, will bind 

 exceeding ciofc, and look very bcau- 

 tif-Qi, and continue handfornc longer 

 than any other Sort of Gravel which 

 I have yet ieen. 



Some recommend a Sort of Iron- 

 mould Gravel, or Gravel with a 

 little binding Lime amongft it^ 

 than which nothing, they fay, binds 

 better v/hen it is dry 5 but in wet 

 Weather it is apt to flick to the 

 Heel's of one's Shooes, and will never 

 appear handfome. 



Sometimes Loam is mix'd with 

 Gravel that is ovcr-fandy or fliarp, 

 which muft be very well blended 

 together, and let lie in Heaps,- after 

 which it will bind like a Rock. 



There are many Kinds of Gravel 

 which do not bind, and thereby 

 caufe a continual Trouble of roll- 

 ing, to little or no Purpofe : As for 

 fuch. 



If the Gravel be loofe or fandy, 

 you Ihould take one Load of ftrong 

 Loam, and two of Gravel, and io 

 caft them well together. 



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