The Theory Part L 



ftrained according to the Work, fo that one End of it touch 

 the Line, and the other the Hurdles, or Watled-work, ob- 

 ferving, according to fome_, to turn the Grafs-fide undcr- 

 moft, which is proper only in Fortifications j and not in the 

 Slopes of Gardens, in which the Turf is always fix'd with 

 the Grafs uppermoft, laying it according to the Slope-line, 

 with the Precaution, for fear the Turf ihould Aide, to peg 

 it all with good Pegs of Oak, or Alder, to keep it in its 

 Place till it has taken Root. 



Quarters and Slopes of Grafs make one of the prin- 

 cipal Beauties of a Garden, when they are well kept, which 

 is all the Difficulty for when the Seed is well come up, and^ 

 the Grafs very thick, or that the Turf be recover'd, and of 

 a beautiful Green, this Perfedion will change in a fliort 

 Time, if Care be not taken to keep it well. 



This Keeping confifts in mowing the Grafs often, not 

 four times a Year, as fome Authors mention, but, at leaft, 

 once a Month. In fome Places they mow it eveiy Fortnight^ 

 the Grafs growing thicker, and looking handfomer the 

 oftner it is cut. It ought to be fo clofe and eaven, that no 

 one Blade, if I may fo fpeak, lliould exceed another. You 

 muftlikewife, from Time to Time, cut and pare away the 

 outer Edge of the Grafs according to the Line ; for without 

 this, it will often exceed its Bounds, and run into the Walks, 

 which would interrupt the Figure and Defign of the Com- 

 partiments. 



The Way they keep their Grafs in England, is to mow 

 it very often, and to beat it when it is too high,, rolling the 

 Surface of it with great Glinders, or Rolls of Wood or 

 Stone, to fmk and level it as much as poffible. You can't 

 do better than to follow this Method ufed in England^ where 

 their Grafs-plots are of fo exquifite a Beauty, that in. France 

 we can fcarce ever hope to come up to it. 



I T may be truly faid, that if handfome Grafs-plots are 

 great Ornaments in a Garden, they are fuch as require the 

 greateft Care of the Gardener, who ought to be almoft 

 conftantly attending them j but,, after all, 'tis a thing 

 indifpenfably neceffary, for if they are negleded, the Grafs 

 growing up in Tufts^ will no longer form fmooth and eaven 



