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Earth, aiid troden down: then lay thereon ahother courfe of Earth 
mixed with Dung, and therewith raife the Borders to the height de- 
fired: then mark and ftake out the form of the whole Garden, accor- 
ding to the defign or draught you fhall fancy ; fo that you may know 
the places where the Beds and Borders will be; thewhich muft be 
— trenched, and dunged as the former : but before you begin to fet out 
any part of the Garden, the whole muft be well digged, and caft in 
toa level, from fide to fide, 
The ground thus prepared, atid having provided fawed Rails, five 
inches broad, and an inch and quarter thick, that have been laid 
ftraight, and feafoned a year at theleaft, let them belined on the 
upper edge, gaged toa thigknefs, {moothed with a Plain, on that 
edge, anid outer fide, fitted to lengths, and pieced according to the 
Timber, and order of the work: you may put them intoa Stone-co- 
lour, with white Lead, common Cerufe, or London white, fome 
Charcoal, and Linfeed oy] ground together ona Painters ftone: but, 
the Rails, and the Stone-colour will laft much longer, if they be firft 
well primed with red Lead and Umber ground as the former: then 
after the Colours are drie,and the Rails fitted to their places, nail on 
the infides thereof, pieces of hard wood that will Jaft, about half a 
yard long, placing them an inch under the upper edge : ifyou fet 
them too thin, the Rails will be apt to warp, and turn with the Sun: 
ne with difcreti let thefe feet into the 
Is kept ftraight and level, raifed up, that they 
+ fide above the ground, after the 
Allies are gravelledand made: then fill every Bed and Border with 
cood fcreened or fifted earth, and leave them like a‘ridge, higher 
fey 
than the Railsin the middle, | 
“The next work, is to prepare the places intended for Grafs, and to 
provide Purfs for them, Firft, level the ground, and confider the 
thicknefs of the Turfs, which when layed, mutt be three inches low- 
er than the upper edge of the Rails, and the Allies four inches, fo the 
Grafs will be an inch higher,remembrin ftill from the Rails to fetch 
your meafures, and level, to keep the te work in order ; and if 
thegtound under the Turfs be not barren of it felf, it fhould be 
covered fome thicknefs with hungry Sand to makeit fo, that the 
- grafs grow not too rank, The beft Turfs for this purpofe are had in the 
moft hungry Common, and where the grafs is thick and fhort, prick 
down a line eight or ten foot long, and with a Spade cut the Turfs 
thereby, then thift the line a foot or fifteen inches further, and fo 
proceed untill you have cut fo far as you defire, then crofs the line to 
the fame breadth, that the Turfs may be fquare, and cut them there- 
by : then with a ftraig ht bitted Spade, or Turving-Iron (which many 
for that purpofe provide) and afhort cord tied toitnear the Bit, and 
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