Chap. VIL of Gardening. 6^ 



the Growth of the Seed. The Place being thus prepared^ 

 fbw your Seed on it very thick, that it may come up as 

 clofe and Ihort as maybe ; then pafs the Rake over it again, 

 to bury and cover the Seed a little, which fliould not be 

 fown in windy Weather, left it be blown away ^ on the 

 contrary, you Ihould choofe a mild Day, rather inclined to 

 wet, that the Rain forcing down the Earth, and finking the 

 Seed, may caufe it to Ihoot up the fooner. 



The beft Seafon for Sowing is the End of Autumn, Seed 

 in its own Nature requiring nothing but Moifture to make 

 it grow, which it cannot fail of in this Seafon, nor all the 

 Winter long. When you ftay to the End of February^ or 

 the Beginning of March^ before you fow your Seed, you 

 run a Risk of not feeing your Quarters green fo foon, if the 

 Summer proves any thing dry, as it often happens, unlefs 

 you take care to give them continual Waterings, or rather 

 to lay them under Water, which is a very great Slavery and 

 Expence. 



A L L the Difficulty of making a fine Green-plot by fowing 

 it, lies in getting good Seed, which ought to be carefully 

 examined before 'tis fown. What they make ufe of in /wEiiglandl 

 France^ is the Seed of fine Dutch Clover-grafs or Trefoil, ^i^l^^f-^c 

 Hay-^feed of low Meadows, Sainfoin, Catmint, and that of the finlfi vp^ 

 fine fmall Grafs, refembling Civet. There are alfo abun- ^^lf^/^^^[^^^^ 

 <lance of other Seeds for this Purpofe, whofe Names are ^nlfijkC^ 

 unknown, and in which one is often deceived. 



You fliould not do, as many, that will gather their Seed 

 from fome Hay-loft, and fow it without Diftindion, hoping 

 by that means to make a fine Grafs-plot ; in this they are 

 greatly miftaken, for the Seed fhooting too high, and ^ma- 

 king large Stalks, the lower Part remains naked and bare, 

 and mow it as often as you will, will never make hand- 

 fome Grafs > but on the contrary, come to nothing but 

 Tufts of Weeds and Quich-grafs^ very little better than 

 that of the common Fields. 



As to the Manner of laying Turf, you fliould, in the 

 firft place, make Choice of the beft in the Country, either 

 from Road-fides, or the Edges of Paftures and Meadows 

 where Sheep and Cows feedi for inthefe Places^ generally^ 



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