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while moist ; then roll soundly with the wooden- 

 roller, and afterwards with the stone-roller, especi- 

 ally in rain, for which the spring and autumn is 

 best : but if in dry weather, you must dash water 

 on the roller (continually in rolling) with the 

 watering-pot, and if you are forced to use sea or 

 water-sand, you may beat some good clay to dust 

 and mix with it before you lay it ; weed, and roll 

 frequently. 



For the orderly planting of flowers there maybe 

 three wayes ; as first, in bordures of pleasure-gar- 

 dens or courts, plant five rowes in the bordure, and 

 intermix them orderly, i.e. divide and plant every 

 sundry sort, through the whole garden, at equal 

 distances, and not only so, but of every sundry 

 colour thereof also : let never two of a kind, nor 

 two of a colour, stand together, without other 

 kinds and colours interveening, so there may not 

 be two or three of a kind or colour at one end, 

 bordure, plot, or place, and none of them through 

 the rest, but universally and ornamentally inter- 

 mixt : and when you find a breach by some being 

 past the flower, you may have various annual flow- 

 ers sowen in pots, ready to plunge into the vacan- 

 cies of the bordures for continuing this beauty. 



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