C H A P. IV. 



Of Parterres and Borders of fede- 

 ral Kinds. 



DiBiomry 

 of the French 



Menage, 

 Richelet. 



HE Name of Parterre has its Original from the 

 Latin Word Partiri^ to dhide j and accordincr 

 to lome, a Parterre denotes a flat and eaveS 

 Surface. 



The Compartiments and Borders of Parterres are taken 

 from Geometrical Figures, as well right-lined, as circular 

 mix d, &c. They take various Defigns into, their Compo- 

 fition, as branch'd and flourifh'd Work Palms Foliage 

 Hawks-Bills, Sprigs, Tendrells, Volutes, Knots Stalks' 

 Ties, Chaplets, Beads, Husks, Cartoozes, Plumes Com- 

 partiments, Frets or Interlacings, Wreaths, and Shell-works 

 of Grals, Paths, Borders, &c. And fbmetimes to thefe are 

 added the Defigns of Flowers, as Rofes, Pinks TuHds 

 and the like. ' ' 



Formerly they put in the Heads of Greyhounds 

 Griffins, and other Beafts, with their Paws and Tilons - 

 which had a very ill Effeft, and made Parterres look verv 

 heavy and clouterly. ' 

 ^ The Defigns we feenow-a-days are quite different : and 

 tis pretended, that to have Embroidery look well it fhould 

 be light, regular, and not confufed ; which often occafions 

 the Falling into the contrary Fault to what they were in 

 heretofore i and, out of a ftudious Endeavour to make 

 Parterres appear light and free, they make them utterly un- 

 furnilh d, and with an Embroidery fo thin and meaner thu 

 It makes no Figure upon the Ground i but in fou? or five 

 Years Time you are obliged to pull it up again, the Edgings 

 of Box coming to touch and interfere one with another. 



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