TREATING OF CONTRIVANCE 



of swell ; for twenty foot, four inches ; ten foot, two 

 inches ; and let gravel have an inch more propor- 

 tionally; agreeable to the rule of proportion in 

 arithmetick, as twenty is to four, so is thirty to six. 

 If gravel or brick- walkes or pathes lye by the side 

 of grass, make the grass an half inche higher than 

 such. If the walke be grass, make two foot tables, 

 or pathes of gravel, betwixt it and the bordure. 



To lay grass, first level the ground, whether a 

 walke or plot; and 'tis the better to lye a year so 

 made up, before you lay the turf ; because it may 

 be levelled up again, if it sink into holes : if it lye 

 wet, bottom with stones and rubbish ; and, if the 

 earth be fat, take it out, and put in sand: however, 

 lay the sand a foot thick immediately under the 

 turf; then by the squair, stretch lines, ritt with the 

 ritting-iron (which is an half round put into the end 

 of a crooked stick) and raise the turf with the turf- 

 spade (which is broad mouthed, otherwise all one 

 with the husbandman's breast-turfing-spade) ; let 

 the turf be of equal thickness, near inch and half 

 thick, a foot and half broad, and as much in length ; 

 lay their green sides together when you put them 

 in the cart, but do not roll them when brought home: 

 lay them all even and close, feeling each particular 



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